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This feature highlights the idiom 「南棹北轅」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Just like sailing south and riding north. Describes riding a boat or a horse, traveling north and south.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nán zhào běi yuán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
naam4 jaau6 bak1 yun4
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