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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「移山拔海」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Move the mountains and pull up the seas. Describes great power.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yí shān bá hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi4 saan1 bat6 hoi2

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