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Learn about the idiom 「片光零羽」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A metaphor for scattered precious items.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

piàn guāng líng yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pin2/pin3 gwong1 ling4 yu5

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