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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「因樹為屋」 for your learning.

Learn about the idiom 「因樹為屋」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Build a house against a tree. A metaphor for living in seclusion in the countryside.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīn shù wéi wū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan1 syu6 wai6/wai4 uk1

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