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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「用非所學」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「用非所學」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

What you use is not what you learned. Refers to the inconsistency between learning and application.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yòng fēi suǒ xué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yung6 fei1 so2 hok6

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