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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「五湖四海」, with its explanation below.

The featured idiom 「五湖四海」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Refers to all parts of the country, and sometimes all over the world. It is now also sometimes used to refer to broad unity.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wǔ hú sì hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ng5 wu4 sei3 hoi2

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