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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「牝牡驪黃」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Li: black. The original meaning is that when observing things, one should focus on the essence and not care about the appearance. Later it was used as a metaphor for the superficial phenomena of things.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
pìn mǔ lí huáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pan5 maau5 lei4 wong4
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