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This feature highlights the idiom 「點石為金」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Refers to a spell that can turn stone into gold with a touch of the finger. Same as “turning iron into gold”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
diǎn shí wéi jīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dim2 sek6 wai6/wai4 gam1
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