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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「鳳翥龍蟠」. Explanation below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「鳳翥龍蟠」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Like a flying phoenix and a coiled dragon. It is a metaphor for the body’s vigorous and powerful posture.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèng zhù lóng pán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung6 jyu3 lung4 pun4

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