4 characters Idiom and proverb 2 482

Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「千里之足」.

Here’s the idiom 「千里之足」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Originally refers to a thousand-mile horse. Later it was also used to refer to handsome talents.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān lǐ zhī zú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 lei5 ji1 juk1

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