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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「金碧輝映」.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「金碧輝映」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Describes a building that is richly decorated and dazzling. Same as “magnificent”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīn bì huī yìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gam1 bik1 fai1 ying2

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.