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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「兩葉掩目」. Explanation below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「兩葉掩目」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Like two leaves covering my eyes. A metaphor for being blinded and unable to distinguish things clearly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liǎng yè yǎn mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

leung5 yip6 yim2 muk6

There are countless Chinese idioms, all rich in meaning and application. Each one is unique, and we hope this information helps you explore and enhance your Chinese language knowledge.