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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「魚貫雁比」.

Here’s the idiom 「魚貫雁比」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It is a metaphor for continuous progress, like schools of fish or formation of geese.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yú guàn yàn bǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yu4 gun3 ngaan6 bei2

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