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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「暗約偷期」, with its usage explained below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「暗約偷期」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

About: agreement; date: date. Make a secret agreement with each other. Refers to a man and a woman secretly getting married

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

àn yuē tōu qī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

am3 yeuk3 tau1 kei4

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