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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「輕徙鳥舉」, with more below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「輕徙鳥舉」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

It is easy to leave or stay, as easy as a bird flying.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qīng xǐ niǎo jǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heng1 saai2 niu5 geui2

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