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Introducing the idiom 「遺物忘形」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
To eliminate the boundaries between the self and the object means to abandon external forms and enter a state of selflessness.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yí wù wàng xíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wai4 mat6 mong4 ying4
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