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Introducing the idiom 「更闌人靜」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Geng: a unit of timekeeping for the night in the old days, a night is divided into five watches, each watch is about two hours; Lan: about to end; Renjing: no noisy sound, utterly silent. It was late at night, there was no sound of human voice, and everything was silent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gèng lán rén jìng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gang3/gaang1 laan4 yan4 jing6
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