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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「銀鉤鐵畫」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Hook: to draw; stroke: to draw. Describes calligraphy as being both strong and soft.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yín gōu tiě huà

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngan2/ngan4 ngau1 tit3 wa2/waak6

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