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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「冬溫夏清」 below.

Here’s the idiom 「冬溫夏清」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Keep your parents warm in winter and cool in summer. Refers to filial piety of sons. It also refers to warm in winter and cool in summer.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng wēn xià qīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 wan1 ha6 ching1

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