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The featured idiom 「馭鳳驂鶴」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Riding a phoenix and a crane. According to legends, immortals often ascend to heaven on cranes, so this word is used to refer to immortals or people who have attained enlightenment. Nowadays it is often used as a mourning term for women.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yù fèng cān hè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu6 fung6 chaam1 hok2

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