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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「有國難投」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

have a country but I can’t go back.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu guó nán tóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 gwok3 naan4 tau4

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