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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「醍醐灌頂」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「醍醐灌頂」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Daigo: The oil condensed on the cheese. Pour pure ghee on the head. Buddhism is about instilling wisdom and bringing people to complete enlightenment. A metaphor for being greatly inspired by wise advice. Also describes cool and comfortable

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tí hú guàn dǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tai4 wu4 gun3 ding2/deng2

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