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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「紅粉青樓」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
Rouge: originally refers to red lead powder, which is a cosmetic product for women, and later refers to beautiful women; brothel: a brothel. A general term for occasions where there are beautiful women or where one can have fun.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hóng fěn qīng lóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung4 fan2 ching1/cheng1 lau2
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