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千金難買早知道
  cin1 gam1 naan4 maai5 zou2 zi1 dou6*3   jyutping
  qian1 jin1 nan2 mai3 zao3 zhi1 dao4   pinyin
if only I would have known earlier
[literal] money can't buy foreknowledge

Idiom

Level: 4
This term is used in Cantonese, not Mandarin/Standard written Chinese.
千金難買早知道 / 千金难买早知道

This word has been viewed 1813 times since 30th Oct 2012, was added by Michael 忠仔 on 8th Feb 2014 02:48 and last edited on 20th Apr 2015 14:53
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Characters in this word:

 cin1  -  a thousand; many
 gam1  -  gold
 naan4 naan6  -  difficult; unpleasant; calamity; blame
 maai5  -  buy; purchase
 zou2  -  early
 zi1 zi3  -  know; knowledge; inform
 dou6  -  road; way; channel; doctrine; Taoism; skill
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