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凤毛麟角

fèng máo lín jiǎo

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 4-character word Traditional 鳳毛麟角

凤毛麟角 (fèng máo lín jiǎo) means "lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom); fig. few and far between". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 凤毛麟角 means

1. lit. as rare as phoenix feathers and unicorn horns (idiom)
2. fig. few and far between

The characters in 凤毛麟角

• 凤fèngphoenix
• 毛máohair; feather; down
• 麟línvariant of 麟
• 角jiǎoangle; corner; horn

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