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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「東聲西擊」 below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「東聲西擊」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

It means to make a feint to the east and attack in the west. He threatened to attack one side, but actually attacked that side.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng shēng xī jī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 seng1 sai1 gik1

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