Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「事不過三」.
The idiom 「事不過三」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.
It means that the same thing should not be done three times in a row.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì bù guò sān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
si6 bat1 gwo3 saam1
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