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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「登高望遠」, with more below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「登高望遠」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Climb to a higher place and see farther. It also refers to a high level of thinking and a far-sighted vision.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dēng gāo wàng yuǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dang1 gou1 mong6 yun5

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.