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Idioms like 「徘徊歧路」 are key to mastering Chinese. Start from characters, climb to idioms, and explore them with this free resource.

This feature highlights the idiom 「徘徊歧路」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Wander: walk back and forth in one place, a metaphor for hesitation; fork in the road: a fork in the road. Walking back and forth on the fork in the road. A metaphor for hesitation and indecision.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pái huái qí lù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pui4 wui4 kei4 lou6

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