We’ll explain 「粉白黛黑」 clearly, including its application and pinyin in both Mandarin and Cantonese.

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Here’s the idiom 「粉白黛黑」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Powder white: apply powder on the face to make it whiter; blacken the eyebrows: draw on the eyebrows to make them darker. Generally refers to women’s makeup.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fěn bái dài hēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan2 baak6 doi6 hak1

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