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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「色授魂與」.

Here’s the idiom 「色授魂與」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Color: expression; grant, give: give. It describes the two people expressing their feelings through their eyes and being in harmony with each other.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sè shòu hún yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sik1 sau6 wan4 yu5

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.