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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「半間不界」, with details below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「半間不界」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Space, boundary: now written as: “awkward”. A metaphor for being superficial, not profound, or not doing things thoroughly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bàn jiān bù jiè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bun3 gaan1 bat1 gaai3

The sheer number of Chinese idioms and their varied meanings make them fascinating to study. Let these materials assist you as you advance your Chinese skills and understanding.