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In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「葉落知秋」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.
When you see the leaves falling, you know autumn is coming. A metaphor that the development trend of things can be inferred from subtle changes.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yè luò zhī qiū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yip6 lok6 ji1 chau1
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