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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「渭陽之情」—details below.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「渭陽之情」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Weiyang: the north of Wei River. Legend has it that Duke Kang of Qin sent his uncle Chong’er back to Jin, all the way to the north of the Wei River. Refers to the friendship between uncle and nephew.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wèi yáng zhī qíng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai6 yeung4 ji1 ching4

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