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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「兼而有之」.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「兼而有之」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Refers to possessing or owning several things at the same time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiān ér yǒu zhī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gim1 yi4 yau5 ji1

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