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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「單絲不線」, detailing its meaning and use.

Learn about the idiom 「單絲不線」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

A single thread cannot be spun into a thread. A metaphor for being single and without a spouse.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dān sī bù xiàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daan1 si1 bat1 sin3

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