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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「十親九故」, detailed below.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「十親九故」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Used to describe having many relatives and friends.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí qīn jiǔ gù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sap6 chan1 gau2 gu2/gu3

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