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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「逾牆窺蠙」 below.

Here’s the idiom 「逾牆窺蠙」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to an affair between a man and a woman. Same as “climb over the wall and drill a hole”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yú qiáng kuī bīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu4 cheung4 kwai1 pan4

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