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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「錦繡山河」 and how it’s used.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「錦繡山河」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

The mountains and rivers are like fine and colorful silk fabrics. Describes a beautiful country.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jǐn xiù shān hé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gam2 sau3 saan1 ho4

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