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This feature highlights the idiom 「遺簪墜珥」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Refers to the loss or discarding of hairpins and earrings. It also refers to abandoned hairpins and earrings.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yí zān zhuì ěr

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai4 jaam1 jeui6 nei6

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