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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「不相聞問」, explained here.

Today, we explore the idiom 「不相聞問」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Wenwen: to communicate news and information. It means no contact or severance of communication.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù xiàng wén wèn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

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