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This feature highlights the idiom 「年近古稀」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Guxi: refers to the age of seventy. He is nearly seventy years old.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

nián jìn gǔ xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

nin4 kan5/gan6 gu2 hei1

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