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Let’s learn about the idiom 「一畫開天」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
According to legend, Fuxi drew the Eight Trigrams starting with the first stroke of the Qian Trigram. Qian represents heaven, so it means “one stroke creates the heaven.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī huà kāi tiān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 wa2/waak6 hoi1 tin1
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