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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「一佛出世」 here, with meaning and examples.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「一佛出世」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Just as when one Buddha is born, two Buddhas are born in heaven.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī fó chū shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 fat6 cheut1 sai3

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