4 characters Idiom and proverb 15 593

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Introducing the idiom 「時乖運拙」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Clumsy: inferior, not good. Bad luck and bad fate. Refers to an unfavorable situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí guāi yùn zhuō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si4 gwaai1 wan6 jyut3

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