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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「分茅裂土」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「分茅裂土」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It originally referred to the ceremony held by ancient emperors when they enfeoffed princes. Later it was called the enfeoffment of princes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèn máo liè tǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan1 maau4 lit6 tou2

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.