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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「秀色可餐」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Beauty: the appearance of a beautiful woman or natural beauty; meal: to eat. Originally used to describe a woman’s beauty. Later it is also used to describe beautiful scenery.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xiù sè kě cān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sau3 sik1 ho2 chaan1
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