From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「室邇人遙」. Details below.
Here, we present the idiom 「室邇人遙」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
The house is nearby, but the owner of the house is far away. It is often used to express longing for someone far away or to mourn the dead. Same as “the room is near but the people are far away”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shì ěr rén yáo
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sat1 yi5 yan4 yiu4
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