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

The idiom being introduced now is 「雲起龍驤」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

驤: rise up. Like clouds rising, like a dragon soaring. In the old days, it was used to describe heroes who took advantage of the times.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yún qǐ lóng xiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wan4 hei2 lung4 seung1

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