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The idiom 「心向往之」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

To have a deep yearning for someone or something.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn xiàng wǎng zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 heung3 wong5 ji1

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