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Introducing the idiom 「西子捧心」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
It means that the morbidity of a beautiful woman enhances her beauty.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī zǐ pěng xīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sai1 ji2 pung2 sam1
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