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Chinese idioms like 「東完西缺」 represent a high level of language skill. This free guide helps you learn their meaning and use.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「東完西缺」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Refers to shortage and incompleteness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng wán xī quē

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 yun4 sai1 kyut3

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