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Today’s idiom is 「掩骼埋窆」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.
Refers to the burial of corpses exposed in the wild. It was an ancient policy to care for the people. Same as “bury the bones and flesh”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǎn gé mái biǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yim2 gaak3 maai4 bin2
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