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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「褒衣危冠」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Baoyi: loose clothes. Weiguan: a tall hat. The attire of ancient Confucian scholars. Refers to a wide robe and a tall hat.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bāo yī wēi guàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou1 yi1 ngai4 gun3

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