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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: 「楚弓遺影」.

Today’s idiom is 「楚弓遺影」. We’ve outlined its meaning and practical application below.

A metaphor for the suspicious feeling caused by something.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chǔ gōng yí yǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cho2 gung1 wai4 ying2

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