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 「青山一發」, with details below.
We’re presenting the idiom 「青山一發」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Looking from a distance, the outline of the green mountains is only as thin as a hair. Describes something that is extremely far away. It also refers to the Central Plains.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qīng shān yī fā
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
ching1 saan1 yat1 faat3
There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.

