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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「知名當世」, with its usage explained below.

Here’s the idiom 「知名當世」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Well-known: famous, renowned. Very famous in contemporary times.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī míng dāng shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 ming4 dong3/dong1 sai3

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