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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「見卵求雞」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
When seeing the egg, one hopes that the egg will turn into a chicken and come to announce the dawn. A metaphor for speaking too early.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jiàn luǎn qiú jī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gin3 leun2 kau4 gai1
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