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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「輔車唇齒」, with its explanation below.

The featured idiom 「輔車唇齒」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Auxiliary: cheek bones beside the mouth. Che: gum, that is, gum bone. Cheek bones and gum bones, lips and teeth. Refers to two parties that are interdependent.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fǔ chē chún chǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu6 che1 seun4 chi2

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