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We’re presenting the idiom 「一旦一夕」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Describes a very short period of time. Same as “overnight”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī dàn yī xī
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 daan3 yat1 jik6
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