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Today, we explore the idiom 「交淺言深」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Talk to people you don’t know well.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiāo qiǎn yán shēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaau1 chin2 yin4 sam1

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