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Chinese idioms like 「黃梁美夢」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Learn about the idiom 「黃梁美夢」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

The yellow rice has not yet been steamed, but a good dream has already ended. Originally used to metaphorically describe the vanity of life. The latter metaphor refers to a dream that cannot be realized.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huáng liáng měi mèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wong4 leung4 mei5 mung6

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