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Here’s the idiom 「貽笑後人」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Yi: to leave behind; later generations: people in later generations. Because of its absurdity, it will be ridiculed by future generations and leave a topic of criticism for future generations.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yí xiào hòu rén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi4 siu3 hau6 yan4
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