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This feature highlights the idiom 「虹銷雨霽」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Hong: rainbow; Xiao: same as “Xiao”, disappear; Ji: originally means the rain stops, and is also extended to mean the weather clears up. The rainbow disappeared and the sky cleared up after the rain.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hóng xiāo yǔ jì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung4 siu1 yu5 jai3

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