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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「返老歸童」, with its usage explained below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「返老歸童」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Rejuvenate from aging. Describes an elderly person who is full of energy. Same as “rejuvenation”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fǎn lǎo guī tóng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan1 lou5 gwai1 tung4

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