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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「判若鴻溝」, with its explanation and usage provided below.
Judge: difference; Honggou: an ancient canal, located in present-day Henan Province, which was a river dividing Chu and Han in the late Qin Dynasty. It is a metaphor for the boundary between things. Used to describe that the boundaries are clear and the differences are obvious.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pàn ruò hóng gōu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pun3 yeuk6 hung4 kau1
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