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We’re presenting the idiom 「開疆拓宇」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Expand territory and expand territory. Same as “open up new territory”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kāi jiāng tuò yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hoi1 geung1 tok3 yu5

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