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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「饞涎欲滴」—details below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「饞涎欲滴」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Saliva: saliva. I’m so greedy that my saliva is dripping. Describes an extremely greedy look. It also describes being extremely jealous.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chán xián yù dī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaam4 yin4 yuk6 dik6

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