Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「一面之雅」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「一面之雅」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
We’ve only met once. A metaphor for a shallow friendship. Same as “an acquaintance”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī miàn zhī yǎ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 min6 ji1 nga5
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