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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「甜言蜜語」.

Discover the idiom 「甜言蜜語」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

As sweet as honey. A metaphor for sweet words spoken to deceive people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tián yán mì yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tim4 yin4 mat6 yu5

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