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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「東投西竄」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Running around everywhere. It usually refers to running around due to the pressure of life or for a certain purpose. Same as “running around”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng tóu xī cuàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 tau4 sai1 chyun3

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