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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「判若天淵」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

The difference in height is as great as that between the clouds in the sky and the soil on the ground.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pàn ruò tiān yuān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pun3 yeuk6 tin1 yun1

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