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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「掇菁擷華」 and its explanation.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「掇菁擷華」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

掇: pick up; 菁: essence. Pick: to pick. Select the essence of things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duō jīng xié huá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jyut3 jing1 kit3 wa4

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