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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「文房四物」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Commonly refers to pen, ink, paper and inkstone. Same as “Four Treasures of the Study”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén fáng sì wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 fong2 sei3 mat6

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