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We’re presenting the idiom 「人亡物在」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
People die, but things remain. It refers to the remembrance of the deceased caused by seeing the relics, or the emotions caused by it.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén wáng wù zài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 mong4 mat6 joi6
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