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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「認雞作鳳」, with more below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「認雞作鳳」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Buddhist term. To identify the ordinary as precious.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rèn jī zuò fèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying6 gai1 jok3 fung6

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