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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「感今惟昔」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

To be touched by current events and miss people, things or scenes from the past.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǎn jīn wéi xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gam2 gam1 wai4 sik1

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