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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「鏤金錯釆」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

We’re presenting the idiom 「鏤金錯釆」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

A metaphor for deliberately polishing words.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lòu jīn cuò cǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau6 gam1 cho3 bin6

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