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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 「水闊山高」.

Here’s the idiom 「水闊山高」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Kuo: wide, vast, referring to the vast water and tall mountains separating the two places, making them unable to communicate.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shuǐ kuò shān gāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seui2 fut3 saan1 gou1

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