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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「馳高鶩遠」, explained here.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「馳高鶩遠」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

It means to be too ambitious.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chí gāo wù yuǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi4 gou1 mou6 yun5

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