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We’re presenting the idiom 「要而言之」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

In a nutshell, to put it simply.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yào ér yán zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yiu3 yi4 yin4 ji1

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