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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「家諭戶曉」. Explanation below.

The idiom being introduced now is 「家諭戶曉」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Every household knows it. Describes something that is commonly known. Same as “household name”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiā yù hù xiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ga1 yu6 wu6 hiu2

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