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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「枝乾相持」 explained, free of charge.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「枝乾相持」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A metaphor for mutual support. Same as “branches and leaves supporting each other”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī gàn xiàng chí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 gon3 seung2 chi4

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