4 characters Idiom and proverb 13 227

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We’re presenting the idiom 「思潮起伏」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Thought activities are extremely frequent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sī cháo qǐ fú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si1 chiu4 hei2 fuk6

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