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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「鳶飛魚躍」, with details below.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「鳶飛魚躍」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Kite: eagle. Eagles fly in the sky and fish leap in the water. Describes that everything has its proper place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuān fēi yú yuè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun1 fei1 yu2 yeuk6

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