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This feature highlights the idiom 「布被瓦器」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Quilts made of cloth and utensils made of clay. Describes a simple life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù bèi wǎ qì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou3 bei6 nga5 hei3

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