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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「托物引類」. Explanation below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「托物引類」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It means to cite similar things to express one’s own ideas.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tuō wù yǐn lèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tok3 mat6 yan5 leui6

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