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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「人地生疏」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
I am unfamiliar with the people and the place. It means when you first arrive in a place and are unfamiliar with the local people and geography.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rén dì shēng shū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yan4 dei6/dei2 saang1 so1
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