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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「旁搜遠紹」 and how it’s used.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「旁搜遠紹」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Collected extensively, inherited from the ancients.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

páng sōu yuǎn shào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pong4 sau2 yun5 siu6

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