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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「謹身節用」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Cultivate your moral character and behave properly, and use your money economically.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jǐn shēn jiē yòng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gan2 san1 jit3 yung6

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