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Helping you learn Chinese for free is our aim. This idiom and proverb series offers phrases with great depth and versatility. Let’s look at 「獨鶴雞群」 and how to use it.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「獨鶴雞群」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A crane stands among the chickens. A metaphor for a person’s outstanding talent or appearance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dú hè jī qún

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

duk6 hok2 gai1 kwan4

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