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From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「天淵之隔」. Details below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「天淵之隔」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Yuan: a deep pool of water. Used to describe two things that are extremely far apart and very different.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān yuān zhī gé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 yun1 ji1 gaak3

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