Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「舍近即遠」 and its explanation.
This feature highlights the idiom 「舍近即遠」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Give up what is near and seek what is far. Same as “abandon the near and pursue the far.”
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shě jìn jí yuǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
se3 kan5/gan6 jik1 yun5
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