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Learn about the idiom 「豐屋生災」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that a tall house will cause disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng wū shēng zāi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 uk1 saang1/sang1 joi1

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