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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「山南海北」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「山南海北」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Refers to a distant place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shān nán hǎi běi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saan1 naam4 hoi2 bak1

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