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This feature highlights the idiom 「遷客騷人」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Migrants: officials who were exiled to other places; poets: poets. A demoted and exiled official, a sentimental poet. Generally refers to sad and frustrated literati.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān kè sāo rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 haak3 shou1/sou1 yan4

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