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Learn about the idiom 「者也之乎」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

者、也、之、乎 are all commonly used function words in ancient Chinese. Refers to being pedantic when speaking or writing. Contains irony.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhě yě zhī hū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

je2 ya5 ji1 fu4

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