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Chinese idioms like 「點頭之交」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

Here, we present the idiom 「點頭之交」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

It means that the relationship is very shallow and one just nods when meeting.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diǎn tóu zhī jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dim2 tau4 ji1 gaau1

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