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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「一榻橫陳」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Describes a person lying sideways on the bed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī tà héng chén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 taap3 waang4 chan4

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