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This introduction highlights the idiom 「情竇初開」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to someone who has just begun to understand love (mostly referring to young girls).

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qíng dòu chū kāi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ching4 dau3 cho1 hoi1

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