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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「鴻衣羽裳」 for your learning.

Today’s idiom is 「鴻衣羽裳」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

Wear feathers as clothing. Refers to the clothes of gods.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hóng yī yǔ shang

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung4 yi1 yu5 seung4

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