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The Chinese idiom 「白駒空穀」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
White colt: a white horse, a metaphor for a wise person. It is a metaphor for capable people who are in the wild and cannot serve as official. Later it was also used to describe the situation where a virtuous person leaves office and the valley becomes empty.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái jū kōng yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 keui1 hung1 guk1
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