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This feature highlights the idiom 「五世其昌」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
世: generation; 其: time adverb, important. After five generations, the descendants prospered. In the old days, it was used to wish people a happy wedding.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wǔ shì qí chāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ng5 sai3 kei4 cheung1
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