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Introducing the idiom 「不辨菽粟」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
I can’t tell which is beans and which is millet. Describes stupidity and ignorance. The latter describes the lack of practical production knowledge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù biàn shū sù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 bin6 suk6 suk1
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