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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「放飯流歠」. Explanation below.

The featured idiom 「放飯流歠」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

歠: drink, tuck. Eat rice with big mouthfuls and drink soup with big gulps. It used to mean impolite.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fàng fàn liú chuò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fong3 faan6 lau4 jyut3

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