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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「瘴雨蠻煙」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Refers to the misty rain with miasma in the south. It also refers to a very desolate place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhàng yǔ mán yān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeung3 yu5 maan4 yin1

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