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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「形隻影單」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Describes loneliness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xíng zhī yǐng dān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying4 jek3 ying2 daan1

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