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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 「事不宜遲」—details below.

Learn about the idiom 「事不宜遲」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Things should be done quickly and without delay.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì bù yí chí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si6 bat1 yi4 chi4

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