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

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「相輔而行」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Assist each other or cooperate with each other.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiàng fǔ ér háng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung2 fu6 yi4 haang4/hong4/hang4

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