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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「拄笏西山」 below.

Discover the idiom 「拄笏西山」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Describes the leisure and elegance of an official. It also looks leisurely and contented.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǔ hù xī shān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jyu2 fat1 sai1 saan1

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