Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「以疏間親」 and how it’s used.
The idiom 「以疏間親」 we’re featuring is explained below, showcasing its meaning and usage.
It refers to people with distant relationships alienating those who are close.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yǐ shū jiān qīn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi5 so1 gaan1 chan1
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