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Introducing the idiom 「雞鳴狗吠」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
The crowing of chickens and the barking of dogs could be heard by each other. A metaphor for a dense population living in one place.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jī míng gǒu fèi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gai1 ming4 gau2 fai6
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