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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「河落海乾」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

A metaphor for nothing left.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hé luò hǎi gàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ho4 lok6 hoi2 gon3

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