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

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「街巷阡陌」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Qianmo: a small path. Refers to every place in the streets and alleys.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē xiàng qiān mò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaai1 hong6/hong2 chin1 mak6

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.