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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「五顏六色」.

Here’s the idiom 「五顏六色」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes complex colors or a variety of patterns. Extended to mean various.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wǔ yán liù sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ng5 ngaan4 luk6 sik1

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