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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「凡桃俗李」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「凡桃俗李」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Ordinary, common peach and plum blossoms. A metaphor for vulgar people or ordinary things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fán táo sú lǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

faan4 tou2 juk6 lei5

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