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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「坐擁書城」. Explanation below.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「坐擁書城」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A metaphor for a rich collection of books. Same as “owning a hundred cities”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuò yōng shū chéng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cho5 yung2 syu1 sing4

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.