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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「抵足而眠」, with details below.

The featured idiom 「抵足而眠」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Sleeping on the same bed, feet facing each other. Describes a close relationship and deep affection.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǐ zú ér mián

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dai2 juk1 yi4 min4

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