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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「架屋迭床」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Put a bed on top of a bed and build a house on top of a house. A metaphor for repetition and redundancy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jià wū dié chuáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ga3/ga2 uk1 dip6 chong4

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