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The idiom 「琴挑文君」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Tiao: tease, provoke. It is a metaphor for arousing the other person’s affection and expressing one’s own love. Also known as “the heart of the zither picking each other”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qín tiāo wén jūn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kam4 tiu1 man4 gwan1

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