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This feature highlights the idiom 「斷袖之寵」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Duan: to cut off; Chong: to favor, to favor. Refers to men’s homosexual behavior, referring to male concubines.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duàn xiù zhī chǒng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tyun5 jau6 ji1 chung2
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