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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「七步之才」 and how it’s used.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「七步之才」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Describes quick thinking.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī bù zhī cái

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 bou6 ji1 choi4

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