Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「大相徑庭」 and how it’s used.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「大相徑庭」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
Jing: path; Ting: yard; Jingting: disparity, extreme. The metaphors are far from each other and quite different.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà xiàng jīng tíng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 seung2 ging3 ting4
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