4 characters Idiom and proverb 7 188

Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「地廣人希」—details below.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「地廣人希」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

The place is large but sparsely populated. Same as “vast land but sparsely populated”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dì guǎng rén xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dei6/dei2 gwong2 yan4 hei1

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