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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「山砠水厓」 and its explanation.

This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「山砠水厓」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Rocky mountains and waterfront. Generally refers to a remote place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shān jū shuǐ yá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saan1 jeui1 seui2 ngaai4

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