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This feature highlights the idiom 「花花綠綠」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Originally refers to the bright and colorful flowers, plants and trees; describes bright and colorful colors.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huā huā lǜ lǜ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fa1 fa1 luk6 luk6

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