4 characters Idiom and proverb 28 511

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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「黿鳴鱉應」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It is a metaphor for mutual induction, one initiating and the other responding.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuán míng biē yīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun4 ming4 bit3 ying3/ying1

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