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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鸞交鳳友」 and how it’s used.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「鸞交鳳友」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It is a metaphor for outstanding people making friends or talented men and beautiful women getting married.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

luán jiāo fèng yǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lyun4 gaau1 fung6 yau2

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.