Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「所向無前」 and how it’s used.
The Chinese idiom 「所向無前」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.
Direction: refers to the place where the army is heading. Wherever the army pointed, there was no obstacle.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
suǒ xiàng wú qián
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
so2 heung3 mou4 chin4
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