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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「施緋拖綠」, with details below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「施緋拖綠」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Describes being untidy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shī fēi tuō lǜ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si1 fei1 to1 luk6

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