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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「泱泱大風」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Yangyang: grand and magnificent. Refers to the demeanor of a great country with great ambition and spirit.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yāng yāng dà fēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yeung1 yeung1 daai6 fung1

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