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This introduction highlights the idiom 「初試鋒芒」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Figuratively speaking, the beginning signs of strength or talent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chū shì fēng máng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cho1 si3 fung1 mong1

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