Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「地北天南」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「地北天南」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
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The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dì běi tiān nán
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dei6/dei2 bak1 tin1 naam4
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