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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「片言隻字」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Just a few sentences, very few words. Refers to fragmentary written materials.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
piàn yán zhī zì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pin2/pin3 yin4 jek3 ji6
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