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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「籠鳥池魚」 here, with meaning and examples.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「籠鳥池魚」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Birds in cages and fish in ponds. A metaphor for people who are trapped and have lost their freedom.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lóng niǎo chí yú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lung4 niu5 chi4 yu2

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.