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This introduction highlights the idiom 「宦海浮沉」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It refers to the twists and turns and unpredictable changes in official career.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
huàn hǎi fú chén
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
waan6 hoi2 fau4 cham4
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