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Learn about the idiom 「謹本詳始」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that one should be cautious and strict from the beginning.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jǐn běn xiáng shǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gan2 bun2 cheung4 chi2

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