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Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「千載一聖」 today with this free Chinese resource.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「千載一聖」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

A saint appears every thousand years. It means that saints are rare.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān zǎi yī shèng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 joi3 yat1 sing3

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