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This feature highlights the idiom 「風雨不測」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Both wind and clouds are unpredictable. Metaphorically, things or situations are unpredictable, like the changing weather.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng yǔ bù cè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 yu5 bat1 chak1

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