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This feature highlights the idiom 「一身兩役」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

One person does two things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī shēn liǎng yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 san1 leung5 yik6

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