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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「黃鐘毀棄」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A metaphor for not using talented people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huáng zhōng huì qì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wong4 jung1 wai2 hei3

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