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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「追歡賣笑」, explained here.

Learn about the idiom 「追歡賣笑」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Refers to selling pornography for people’s pleasure.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuī huān mài xiào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeui1 fun1 maai6 siu3

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