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

This feature highlights the idiom 「並蒂芙蓉」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Pedicel: the part that connects the flower or fruit to the stem; Hibiscus: another name for lotus. Two lotus flowers grow on one stem. A metaphor for the love between husband and wife. It also means that the two are comparable.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bìng dì fú róng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing6 dai3 fu4 yung4

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