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The idiom 「鶉衣鵠面」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Ragged clothes and thin face. Describes the state of poverty and desolation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chún yī hú miàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheun1/seun4 yi1 huk6 min6/min2

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