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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「虛有其表」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Void: empty; surface: surface, appearance. It has a good appearance but is actually useless. It means being in name only.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xū yǒu qí biǎo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
heui1 yau5 kei4 biu2
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