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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「敲冰玉屑」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Generally refers to exquisite paper.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiāo bīng yù xiè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

haau1 bing1 yuk6 sit3

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