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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「閑非閑是」, with details below.

Introducing the idiom 「閑非閑是」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Unimportant right and wrong, and discussions. Same as “idleness is neither idleness nor wrongness”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xián fēi xián shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

haan4 fei1 haan4 si6

There are countless Chinese idioms, all rich in meaning and application. Each one is unique, and we hope this information helps you explore and enhance your Chinese language knowledge.