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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「大而化之」 here, with meaning and examples.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「大而化之」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Hua: change, transformation. Originally it meant to spread its ideas widely and convert the whole world. Later used to describe doing things carelessly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dà ér huà zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai6 yi4 fa3 ji1

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