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We’re presenting the idiom 「胡越之禍」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
In ancient times, wars often broke out between the Hu and Yue states in the Central Plains, so the phrase “the disaster of Hu and Yue” was used to describe the disaster of war.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hú yuè zhī huò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wu4 yut6 ji1 wo6
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