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Let’s dive into the idiom 「紅白喜事」. Its definition and application are outlined below.
Red refers to weddings and birthdays, and white refers to funerals, and together they are called red and white weddings.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hóng bái xǐ shì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung4 baak6 hei2 si6
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