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This feature highlights the idiom 「巧舌如簧」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The tongue is dexterous and can produce pleasant musical sounds like a reed. Describes someone who is eloquent and good at speaking.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiǎo shé rú huáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

haau2 sit3 yu4 wong4

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