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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「豔紫妖紅」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「豔紫妖紅」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means a riot of colour. Describes the delicate beauty of various flowers.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yàn zǐ yāo hóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yim6 ji2 yiu2 hung4

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.