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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「柳暗花遮」.

Here’s the idiom 「柳暗花遮」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes the hazy shadows of flowers and willows late at night.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liǔ àn huā zhē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau5 am3 fa1 je1

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