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Here is the Chinese idiom 「五穀不分」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Five grains: usually refer to rice, millet, sorghum, wheat and beans. It means not participating in labor and not being able to distinguish grains. Describes being detached from productive labor and lacking production knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wǔ yù bù fèn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ng5 guk1 bat1 fan1
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