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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「龍盤虎踞」 for your learning.

Here, we present the idiom 「龍盤虎踞」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Pan: to twist and turn around; Ju: to squat, to sit. Like a coiled dragon or a crouching tiger. Specifically refers to Nanjing. It also describes the majestic and dangerous terrain.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lóng pán hǔ jù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lung4 pun2/pun4 fu2 geui3

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