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Introducing the idiom 「鶴發雞皮」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Hefa: white hair; chicken skin: describes skin with wrinkles. The skin is wrinkled and the hair is pale. Describes the elderly appearance of an old person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hè fā jī pí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hok2 faat3 gai1 pei4

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