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This feature highlights the idiom 「越鳧楚乙」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The same flying goose is mistaken by some as a wild duck and by others as a swallow. A metaphor for making wrong judgments due to subjective and one-sided understanding of things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuè fú chǔ yǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yut6 fu4 cho2 yut3

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