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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「時移勢易」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It means that times, situations, etc. have changed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí yí shì yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si4 yi4 sai3 yi6

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