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Today, we explore the idiom 「本同末異」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.
Ben: origin. End: the last stream. It is a metaphor that things have the same origin, but the final products derived from them are different.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
běn tóng mò yì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bun2 tung4 mut6 yi6
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