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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「玉骨冰肌」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Describes a woman’s slim figure and fair and smooth skin.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yù gǔ bīng jī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yuk6 gwat1 bing1 gei1

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