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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「人聲鼎沸」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「人聲鼎沸」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Ding: an ancient cooking utensil; Fei: boiling. Describes the noisy sound of a crowd, like a boiling pot.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén shēng dǐng fèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 seng1 ding2 fai3

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