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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「漫不經意」 and how it’s used.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「漫不經意」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Just casually, don’t take it to heart.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

màn bù jīng yì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maan6 bat1 ging1 yi3

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