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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「投桃之報」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
A metaphor for repaying someone else.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tóu táo zhī bào
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tau4 tou2 ji1 bou3
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