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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「遠不間親」 here, with meaning and examples.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「遠不間親」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Jian: to alienate. Those who are distant do not get involved in the affairs of those who are close.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuǎn bù jiān qīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun5 bat1 gaan1 chan1

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