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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「雲龍井蛙」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

A dragon in the cloud, a frog in the well. It is a metaphor for the huge difference in status.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yún lóng jǐng wā

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wan4 lung4 jeng2 wa1

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