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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「多凶少吉」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

There are more disasters than good things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duō xiōng shǎo jí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

do1 hung1 siu2 gat1

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