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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「丟三忘四」 for your learning.

Here, we present the idiom 「丟三忘四」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Describes doing things carelessly, either losing this or forgetting that. Same as “lose things”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diū sān wàng sì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

diu6 saam1 mong4 sei3

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