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This introduction highlights the idiom 「風起雲蒸」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

The wind blew hard and dark clouds rose. It is a metaphor for something that rises rapidly and with great momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng qǐ yún zhēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 hei2 wan4 jing1

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