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This feature highlights the idiom 「電光石火」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
The light of lightning, the fire of flint. Originally a Buddhist term, it refers to the fleeting nature of things. It is now mostly used to describe things that disappear in an instant like lightning and sparks.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
diàn guāng shí huǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
din6 gwong1 sek6 fo2
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