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Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「析毫剖釐」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Break down and analyze extremely small things. Describes an analysis that is careful and thorough.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xī háo pōu lí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik1 hou4 fau2 lei4

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