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Introducing the idiom 「指事類情」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It means to explain the truth of things and to use metaphors to illustrate the situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǐ shì lèi qíng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji2 si6 leui6 ching4

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