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The featured idiom 「緣木求魚」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Climb a tree. Climb up a tree to find fish. It is a metaphor that the direction or method is wrong and it is impossible to achieve the goal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yuán mù qiú yú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yun4 muk6 kau4 yu2
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