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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「一箭之遙」. Explanation below.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「一箭之遙」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Equivalent to the distance of an arrow. A metaphor for being not far apart.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī jiàn zhī yáo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 jin3 ji1 yiu4

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