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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「松喬之壽」, with more below.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「松喬之壽」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Song Qiao: The immortals Chisongzi and Wang Ziqiao in mythology. Refers to immortality.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sòng qiáo zhī shòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sung1 kiu4 ji1 sau6

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