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Let’s dive into the idiom 「運蹇時低」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

It means being unlucky and in adversity.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yùn jiǎn shí dī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wan6 gin2 si4 dai1

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