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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「浮家泛宅」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Fan: float; Zhai: residence. Describes the act of using a boat as home, living on the water, and drifting from place to place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fú jiā fàn zhái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fau4 ga1 faan6 jaak6

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