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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「三葷五厭」.

Discover the idiom 「三葷五厭」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Generally refers to meat and fish food.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sān hūn wǔ yàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saam1 fan1 ng5 yim3

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