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This feature highlights the idiom 「還鄉晝錦」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

To wear brocade clothes and travel during the day refers to wearing brocade clothes and returning to one’s hometown when one is rich and powerful.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hái xiāng zhòu jǐn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waan4 heung1 jau3 gam2

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