4 characters Idiom and proverb 17 709

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「從長計議」. Explanation below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「從長計議」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Take a longer time to think carefully and discuss things thoroughly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cóng zhǎng jì yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chung4 cheung4/jeung2 gai3/gai2 yi5

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