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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「飛龍在天」, detailed below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「飛龍在天」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A metaphor for the emperor’s reign.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēi lóng zài tiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fei1 lung4 joi6 tin1

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