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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「洞察秋毫」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Insight: see very clearly; Autumn hair: the fine hair that grows on the bodies of birds and animals in autumn, a metaphor for extremely small things. It describes a person with sharp eyesight who can see even the smallest things very clearly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dòng chá qiū háo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung6 chaat3 chau1 hou4
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