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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「粲然可觀」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Canran: a vivid look. Describes something as brightly colored. It means achieving outstanding results and reaching a very high level.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

càn rán kě guān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaan3 yin4 ho2 gun1

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