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This feature highlights the idiom 「懸車之年」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Hanging the carriage: In ancient times, people usually resigned from their official positions and lived at home when they reached the age of seventy, and their carriages were no longer used. Refers to seventy years old.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xuán chē zhī nián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yun4 che1 ji1 nin4
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