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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「四荒八極」 for your learning.

Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「四荒八極」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Extremely remote places in all directions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sì huāng bā jí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sei3 fong1 baat3 gik6

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