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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「家見戶說」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Every household knows it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiā jiàn hù shuō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ga1 gin3 wu6 syut3

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