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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「拿賊見贓」, with details below.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「拿賊見贓」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

To catch a thief, you need to find the stolen goods as evidence.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ná zéi jiàn zāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

na2/na4 chaak2 gin3 jong1

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