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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「回山轉海」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Turning mountains and seas. A metaphor for great power.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huí shān zhuǎn hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wui4 saan1 jyun3 hoi2

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