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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「睹物思人」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

See: look; think: miss. Seeing things left behind by someone who has died or left reminds you of that person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǔ wù sī rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou2 mat6 si1 yan4

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