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This feature highlights the idiom 「湯燒火熱」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Refers to being sick and having a high fever.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tāng shāo huǒ rè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tong1 siu1 fo2 yit6

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