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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「上下其手」, detailing its meaning and use.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「上下其手」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

A metaphor for playing tricks and colluding to cheat.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shàng xià qí shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung5/seung6 ha6 kei4 sau2

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