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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「輕手輕腳」.

The idiom 「輕手輕腳」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Move your hands and feet very gently so that there is no sound.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qīng shǒu qīng jiǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heng1 sau2 heng1 geuk3

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