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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「飛禽走獸」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Here’s the idiom 「飛禽走獸」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Bird: bird; beast: wild beast. Birds flying, beasts running. Generally refers to birds and animals.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēi qín zǒu shòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fei1 kam4 jau2 sau3

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