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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「曠日彌久」 explained, free of charge.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「曠日彌久」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Kuang: delay and waste. It means that something takes a long time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kuàng rì mí jiǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kwong3 yat6 nei4 gau2

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