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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「鬥怪爭奇」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Refers to winning by being strange.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dòu guài zhēng qí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dau3 gwaai3 jaang1 kei4

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