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Here’s the idiom 「黃耳傳書」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Huang’er: a dog’s name; Shu: a letter. The yellow dog delivers letters to and from his master. Later it was used as a metaphor for delivering family letters.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huáng ěr chuán shū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wong4 yi5 chyun4 syu1

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