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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「青燈古佛」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「青燈古佛」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Green oil lamps and ancient Buddha statues. It refers to the lonely life of Buddhism.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qīng dēng gǔ fó

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ching1/cheng1 dang1 gu2 fat6

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