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This feature highlights the idiom 「丈二和尚」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

(idiom) Be at a loss. It means that one cannot figure out what is going on.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhàng èr hé shàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeung6 yi6 wo4 seung2

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