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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「服牛乘馬」 and how it’s used.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「服牛乘馬」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Use oxen and horses to drive the carriage.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fú niú chéng mǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fuk6 ngau4 sing4 ma5

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