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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「阿姑阿翁」 and its explanation.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「阿姑阿翁」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

A: The prefix of a noun. Aunt: husband’s mother. Weng: husband’s father. Refers to parents-in-law.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ā gū ā wēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

a3 gu1 a3 yung1

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