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This feature highlights the idiom 「論黃數白」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

① Refers to making arbitrary comments about right or wrong, good or bad. ② Count the gold and the silver. An extreme expression of wealth.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lùn huáng shù bái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leun6 wong4 sou2/sou3 baak6

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