Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「十裏洋場」, with more below.
Learn about the idiom 「十裏洋場」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It used to refer to places where there were many foreigners. Mostly used to describe old Shanghai.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí lǐ yáng chǎng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 leui5 yeung4 cheung4
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