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This feature highlights the idiom 「徒有其名」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It means being in name only.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tú yǒu qí míng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tou4 yau5 kei4 ming4/meng2
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