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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「海角天涯」, with its usage explained below.

The Chinese idiom we are introducing this time is 「海角天涯」. You can find its meaning and application outlined below.

Describes a very far place or two places that are very far apart.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hǎi jiǎo tiān yá

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hoi2 gok3 tin1 ngaai4

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