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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「負重致遠」.

Here, we present the idiom 「負重致遠」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Carry on the back; send to. Carrying heavy things on your back for a long distance. A metaphor for being able to undertake a difficult task.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fù zhòng zhì yuǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu6 chung5 ji3 yun5

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.