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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「天上麒麟」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Praise someone else’s son for his literary talent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
tiān shàng qí lín
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
tin1 seung6 kei4 leun2
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