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This feature highlights the idiom 「民窮財盡」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The people were impoverished and the wealth of the country was exhausted.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mín qióng cái jìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 kung4 choi4 jeun6

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