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Today’s idiom is 「拆牌道字」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
A word game that breaks a word into a sentence. Same as “break the white characters”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chāi pái dào zì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chaak3 paai2 dou6 ji6
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