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This feature highlights the idiom 「鬥媚爭妍」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Competing to be more charming and beautiful.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dòu mèi zhēng yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dau3 mei6 jaang1 yin4

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