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Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「蛾眉螓首」, as shown below.

Learn about the idiom 「蛾眉螓首」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Curved eyebrows and a broad forehead. Used to describe the beauty of a woman’s appearance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

é méi qín shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngo4 mei4 cheun4 sau2

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