Learning Chinese starts with basic single characters, but the next step is combining them into words. To go even further, mastering idioms is the challenge. Here, we offer free resources to help you explore advanced Chinese idioms. Today’s idiom is 「毫釐千里」, explained below.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「毫釐千里」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Millimeter and centimeter: two extremely small units of length. Although the difference may be small at the beginning, it can result in a big error.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
háo lí qiān lǐ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hou4 lei4 chin1 lei5
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
