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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「旁觀者清」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
The person involved was confused by the problem he encountered, but the people watching saw it very clearly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
páng guān zhě qīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
pong4 gun1 je2 ching1
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