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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「惜玉憐香」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Xi and Lian: love and pity; Yu and Xiang: metaphors for women. It is a metaphor for a man’s care and consideration for the woman he loves.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xī yù lián xiāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sik1 yuk6 lin4 heung1
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