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Learn about the idiom 「海北天南」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Used to describe a distance of thousands of miles. It also describes differences between regions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hǎi běi tiān nán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hoi2 bak1 tin1 naam4
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