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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「步履維艱」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「步履維艱」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Refers to difficulty in walking and inconvenience in movement.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù lǚ wéi jiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou6 lei5 wai4 gaan1

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