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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「鰥寡孤獨」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Generally refers to people who are unable to work and have no relatives to support them.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guān guǎ gū dú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwaan1 gwa2 gu1 duk6
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