Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「麟趾呈祥」. Explanation below.
Introducing the idiom 「麟趾呈祥」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
In the old days, it was used to congratulate the birth of a child.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
lín zhǐ chéng xiáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
leun4 ji2 ching4 cheung4
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