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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「鵲巢鳩據」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
This metaphor refers to a woman who gets married and lives in her husband’s home. Later it was used to describe the act of forcibly occupying other people’s houses, land, wives, etc. Same as “the magpie’s nest is occupied by the dove”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
què cháo jiū jù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jeuk3 chaau4 gau1 geui3
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