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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「戴圓履方」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Lu: to step on; round, square: the ancients believed that the sky is round and the earth is square. The sky is above your head and the earth is under your feet. Refers to living in the human world.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dài yuán lǚ fāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai3 yun4 lei5 fong1
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