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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「河目海口」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Hemu: eyes shaped like a river, with flat and long upper and lower eye sockets; Haikou: a mouth like the sea, big and deep. A metaphor for extraordinary appearance.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hé mù hǎi kǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ho4 muk6 hoi2 hau2
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