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This feature highlights the idiom 「頹垣敗壁」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

There are still dilapidated walls and abandoned wells. Describes a desolate and dilapidated scene.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tuí yuán bài bì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

teui4 wun4 baai6 bik1

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