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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「倒海翻江」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Used to describe extremely great power or momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎo hǎi fān jiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou2 hoi2 faan1 gong1

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