4 characters Idiom and proverb 10 977

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「怡顏悅色」. Explanation below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「怡顏悅色」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Still with a pleasant expression.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yí yán yuè sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi4 ngaan4 yut6 sik1

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