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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「月露之體」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It refers to poetry or essays that have beautiful words but empty content.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuè lù zhī tǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yut6 lou6 ji1 tai2

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