4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 148

Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「希世之珍」 below.

Discover the idiom 「希世之珍」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Rare: rare in the world; precious: treasure. A rare treasure in the world. A metaphor for something extremely precious.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xī shì zhī zhēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hei1 sai3 ji1 jan1

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