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The featured idiom 「獨斷專行」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Act arbitrarily without considering other people’s opinions. Describes an undemocratic style.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dú duàn zhuān háng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

duk6 dyun6 jyun1 haang4/hong4/hang4

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