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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「燕妒鶯慚」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
It describes a woman’s beauty. When a swallow sees her, he becomes jealous, and when an oriole sees her, he feels ashamed of himself.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yàn dù yīng cán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yin3 dou3 ang1 chaam4
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