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This introduction highlights the idiom 「七損八益」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means that women’s menstruation should come on time, and men’s essence should be full. In Traditional Chinese Medicine, when describing the growth and development process of a person, women are counted as seven and men are counted as eight. Therefore, seven refers to women and eight refers to men.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qī sǔn bā yì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chat1 syun2 baat3 yik1
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