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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「揚長而去」.

Discover the idiom 「揚長而去」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

He walked away in a dignified manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yáng zhǎng ér qù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yeung4 cheung4 yi4 heui3

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.