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Chinese education begins with characters, continues with phrases, and grows into idioms. This free lesson covers the idiom 「不知端倪」. Learn its usage below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「不知端倪」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Clue: clue. I have no idea.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù zhī duān ní

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 ji1 dyun1 ngai4

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