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This feature highlights the idiom 「流言風語」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means rumors. Unfounded words. Refers to the slanderous words spread behind someone’s back.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liú yán fēng yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau4 yin4 fung1 yu5

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