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Learn about the idiom 「移氣養體」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Change your temperament and maintain your body.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yí qì yǎng tǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi4 hei3 yeung5 tai2

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