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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「時不我待」, explained here.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「時不我待」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

I wait: the inversion of “wait for me”, waiting for me. Time will not wait for us. It means to seize the time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí bù wǒ dài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si4 bat1 ngo5 doi6

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