Enjoy free Chinese learning resources from us! This series covers idioms and proverbs, which are meaningful and useful in various scenarios. Let’s explore 「描龍繡鳳」 and its usage below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「描龍繡鳳」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Refers to exquisite hand-embroidery. Generally refers to ancient women’s needlework. It is also known as “drawing the phoenix and embroidering the phoenix” and “drawing the dragon and embroidering the phoenix”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
miáo lóng xiù fèng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
miu4 lung4 sau3 fung6
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