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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「乃文乃武」, detailed below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「乃文乃武」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Praise the combination of humanity and martial arts. See that he is both martial and literary.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

nǎi wén nǎi wǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

naai5 man4 naai5 mou5

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