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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「九九歸一」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「九九歸一」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

After going around in circles for a long time, I finally returned to my original state.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiǔ jiǔ guī yī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau2 gau2 gwai1 yat1

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