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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「進道若蜷」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「進道若蜷」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

It means that the way forward seems like going backward. Same as “advance as if retreating”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jìn dào ruò quán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeun3 dou6 yeuk6 kyun4

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