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Learn about the idiom 「辨物居方」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Distinguish the nature, conditions and other factors of all things so that they can be placed in their proper place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

biàn wù jū fāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bin6 mat6 geui1 fong1

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