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Here’s the idiom 「方底圓蓋」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Square bottom vessel with round lid. A metaphor for things that are incompatible.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fāng dǐ yuán gài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fong1 dai2 yun4 goi3/koi3

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