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

We’re presenting the idiom 「露水夫妻」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Refers to an informal couple who are temporarily together; also refers to an improper relationship between a man and a woman.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lù shuǐ fū qī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lou6 seui2 fu1 chai1

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