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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「衡石程書」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Used to describe a monarch who is diligent in state affairs. Same as “weighing books with a scale”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
héng shí chéng shū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hang4 sek6 ching4 syu1
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