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The featured idiom 「貌離神合」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Refers to being different on the surface but identical in essence.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mào lí shén hé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maau6 lei4 san4 hap6

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