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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「有頭有臉」 and its explanation.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「有頭有臉」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Having face; a prominent figure.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǒu tóu yǒu liǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau5 tau4 yau5 lim5

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