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Four-character idioms are the proverbs, fables and poetry of Chinese compressed into four syllables — 5,043 of them from the dictionary, each with translation and meaning. Browse by the pinyin initial of the first character; click any idiom for stroke order and details.

A 59 B 331 C 266 D 242 E 26 F 180 G 216 H 240 J 323 K 92 L 231 M 186 N 96 O 4 P 102 Q 255 R 145 S 424 T 203 W 234 X 262 Y 540 Z 386

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