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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「春蛇秋蚓」, with more below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「春蛇秋蚓」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

It is a metaphor for poorly written words, which are crooked and look like the traces left by earthworms and snakes crawling.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chūn shé qiū yǐn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheun1 se4 chau1 yan5

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