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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「千頭萬序」, with more below.

Discover the idiom 「千頭萬序」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Used to describe things that are complicated and have many clues. Same as “a myriad of things”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān tóu wàn xù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 tau4 maan6 jeui6

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