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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「文章蓋世」 for your learning.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「文章蓋世」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Gaishi: surpassing all others. It means that the article is so good that no one can match it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén zhāng gài shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 jeung1 goi3/koi3 sai3

Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.