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This feature highlights the idiom 「刺上化下」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

To satirize the monarch and educate the people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cì shàng huà xià

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi3 seung5/seung6 fa3 ha6

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