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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「千了百當」, explained here.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「千了百當」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

了: finished, ended;當: appropriate. A metaphor for being appropriate and having a place to go.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān le bǎi dāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chin1 liu5 baak3 dong3/dong1

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