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Let’s dive into the idiom 「烜赫一時」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Magnificent: very loud and powerful. He was very famous and powerful for a period of time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huǐ hè yī shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hyun2 haak1 yat1 si4

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