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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「飲水知源」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

A metaphor for understanding the origin of things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐn shuǐ zhī yuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yam2 seui2 ji1 yun4

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