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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「白日衣繡」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Yi: to wear; Xiu: official uniform embroidered with colorful patterns. During the day, he wore luxurious official uniform so that people could see him. In the old days, it was used to describe returning to one’s hometown after becoming rich and powerful and showing off to one’s fellow villagers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bái rì yī xiù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
baak6 yat6 yi1 sau3
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