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The idiom 「閑言長語」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Nagging words that criticize others.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xián yán zhǎng yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

haan4 yin4 cheung4/jeung2 yu5

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