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This feature highlights the idiom 「恬不為怪」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Tian: at ease; Wei: to think. It means not feeling strange when seeing unreasonable things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tián bù wéi guài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tim4 bat1 wai6/wai4 gwaai3

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