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This feature highlights the idiom 「洋洋自得」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means being complacent. Describes the arrogant attitude when one is proud and proud.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yáng yáng zì dé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yeung4 yeung4 ji6 dak1

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