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Introducing the idiom 「流血漂鹵」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Lu: same as “lu”, a large shield. The blood flowed enough to keep the oars afloat. Describes a heavy number of casualties. Also written as “bleeding and floating”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liú xuè piāo lú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau4 hyut3 piu1 lou5

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