4 characters Idiom and proverb 18 925

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This feature highlights the idiom 「莊嚴寶相」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Buddhism calls the solemn Buddha statue. A metaphor for the true face of a certain person (with a derogatory meaning).

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuāng yán bǎo xiàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jong1 yim4 bou2 seung2

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