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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「惟妙惟肖」 and how it’s used.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「惟妙惟肖」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

The description or imitation is very realistic.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wéi miào wéi xiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai4 miu6 wai4 chiu3

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