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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「並為一談」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「並為一談」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Mixing different things together and talking about them as if they were the same thing.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bìng wéi yī tán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing6 wai6/wai4 yat1 taam4

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