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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「伶俐乖巧」, with details below.

Here’s the idiom 「伶俐乖巧」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Smart: clever; well-behaved: pleasing to people’s hearts. Describes a person who is alert and satisfying.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

líng lì guāi qiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ling4 lei6 gwaai1 haau2

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