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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「由表及裏」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.
Outer: surface; inside: essence. See the essence from the surface phenomenon.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yóu biǎo jí lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yau4 biu2 kap6 leui5
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