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This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「風鬟霧鬢」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Huan: a ring-shaped bun; Bin: the hair near the ears on the face. Describes the beauty of a woman’s hair. It also describes a woman’s fluffy and messy hair.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng huán wù bìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 waan4 mou6 ban3

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