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

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「玉佩瓊琚」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Jade pendant: an ornament made of jade. Qiongju: an ornament made of red jade. ①Generally refers to jade ornaments. ② A compliment to a work of poetry or prose.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yù pèi qióng jū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yuk6 pui3 king4 geui1

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