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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「柔遠懷邇」.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「柔遠懷邇」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Win over the distant places and appease the inland areas.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

róu yuǎn huái ěr

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yau4 yun5 waai4 yi5

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