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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「背鄉離井」 for your learning.

Discover the idiom 「背鄉離井」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

It means to be away from home and wander to another place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bèi xiāng lí jǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bui3 heung1 lei4 jeng2

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