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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「東床嬌婿」 and how it’s used.

This feature highlights the idiom 「東床嬌婿」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

A compliment for a son-in-law.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng chuáng jiāo xù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 chong4 giu1 sai3

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