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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「暗室屋漏」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「暗室屋漏」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to a place where others cannot see; a private room.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn shì wū lòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

am3 sat1 uk1 lau6

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