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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「千山萬水」—details below.

Here’s the idiom 「千山萬水」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Ten thousand rivers and thousands of mountains. Describes a long and difficult journey.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān shān wàn shuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 saan1 maan6 seui2

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