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This feature highlights the idiom 「咫尺千里」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It is a metaphor that although the distance is close, it is difficult to meet each other, as if they are far away in the horizon.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zhǐ chǐ qiān lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ji2 chek3 chin1 lei5
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