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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「浮而不實」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It describes shallow knowledge and a weak foundation; it describes a superficial style that is neither deep nor down-to-earth.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fú ér bù shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fau4 yi4 bat1 sat6

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