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Learn about the idiom 「方鑿圓枘」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Chisel: mortise; tenon: tenon. A square peg will not fit into a round chisel. A metaphor for being incompatible and unable to fit together.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fāng záo yuán ruì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fong1 jok6 yun4 yeui6

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