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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「口齒生香」 explained, free of charge.

This feature highlights the idiom 「口齒生香」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The mouth and teeth have a nice aroma. It is a metaphor that the work you are reading is profound, timeless and pleasant.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kǒu chǐ shēng xiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hau2 chi2 saang1/sang1 heung1

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