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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「朱唇玉面」. Meaning and usage are below.

Here’s the idiom 「朱唇玉面」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to a beautiful woman.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhū chún yù miàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jyu1 seun4 yuk6 min6/min2

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