Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「不即不離」 today with this free Chinese resource.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「不即不離」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
That is: to approach, to get close; to leave: to distance, to leave. It means being neither close nor distant towards people. It usually refers to a relationship that is neither close nor distant.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bù jí bù lí
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bat1 jik1 bat1 lei4
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