4 characters Idiom and proverb 5 425

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

This feature highlights the idiom 「以類相從」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Refers to the classification according to their categories.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ lèi xiàng cóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 leui6 seung2 chung4

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