Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「鶯吟燕儛」, explained below.
Here’s the idiom 「鶯吟燕儛」, with its definition and practical application described below.
Describes the noisy and lively scene of birds in spring. It is now often used to describe the booming revolution and construction. Same as “singing orioles and dancing swallows”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yīng yín yàn wǔ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ang1 ngam4 yin3 mou5
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.

