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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「指日而待」 and its explanation.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「指日而待」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

It means that it will be realized soon. Same as “just around the corner”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǐ rì ér dài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji2 yat6 yi4 doi6

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