4 characters Idiom and proverb 2 583

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Let’s learn about the idiom 「土生土長」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Locally grown.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǔ shēng tǔ zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tou2 sang1 tou2 jeung2

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