4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 357

Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「心去難留」 and how it’s used.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「心去難留」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Go: leave. My heart is somewhere else and it’s hard to keep it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn qù nán liú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 heui3 naan4 lau4

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