Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「漫天過海」, with more below.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「漫天過海」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Describes having no boundaries.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
màn tiān guò hǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
maan6 tin1 gwo3 hoi2
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