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This feature highlights the idiom 「探頭縮腦」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Be careful of the timid look.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tàn tóu suō nǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
taam3 tau4 suk1 nou5
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