4 characters Idiom and proverb 16 209

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 「砲龍烹鳳」, with details below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「砲龍烹鳳」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Describes luxurious and exotic food. It also refers to the name of a dish. Same as “roasting the phoenix and cooking the dragon”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pào lóng pēng fèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

paau3 lung4 paang1 fung6

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