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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「一見鐘情」. Meaning and usage are below.

Learn about the idiom 「一見鐘情」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Zhong: concentrate; Zhongqing: focus on love. In the old days, it referred to the love that arises between a man and a woman as soon as they meet.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī jiàn zhōng qíng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 gin3 jung1 ching4

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