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Learn about the idiom 「自崖而反」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Ya: cliff bank; opposite: same as “fan”, return. An old farewell speech.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì yá ér fǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 ngaai4 yi4 faan2

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