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This feature highlights the idiom 「咫尺千里」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It is a metaphor that although the distance is close, it is difficult to meet each other, as if they are far away in the horizon.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǐ chǐ qiān lǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji2 chek3 chin1 lei5

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