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Learn about the idiom 「十有八九」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It refers to the vast majority, roughly the same, or about the same.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí yǒu bā jiǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sap6 yau5 baat3 gau2

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