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Idioms like 「鱗集仰流」 are key to mastering Chinese. Start from characters, climb to idioms, and explore them with this free resource.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「鱗集仰流」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Like a school of fish swimming upstream. A metaphor for people’s hearts.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lín jí yǎng liú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leun4 jaap6 yeung5 lau4

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