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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「香培玉琢」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「香培玉琢」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It seems to be made of spices and carved from jade.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiāng péi yù zhuó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heung1 pui4 yuk6 deuk3

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