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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「蜂扇蟻聚」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「蜂扇蟻聚」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Bees flap their wings and ants gather. It is a metaphor that although there are many people, they cannot play a big role.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng shàn yǐ jù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 sin3 ngai5 jeui6

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