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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「戛玉敲冰」, explained here.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「戛玉敲冰」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Jia: to knock. Beating jade and ice. Describes a tone that is rhythmic, loud and pleasant. It also describes a person’s awe-inspiring character.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiá yù qiāo bīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaat3 yuk6 haau1 bing1

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