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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「柔遠綏懷」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Comfort those who surrender from afar. To embrace, to submit.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

róu yuǎn suí huái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau4 yun5 seui1 waai4

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