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We’re presenting the idiom 「文搜丁甲」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

The article is so exquisite that it moves the gods. Dingjia is the name of a god, namely the Six Ding and Six Jia gods.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén sōu dīng jiǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 sau2 ding1 gaap3

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