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Here is the Chinese idiom 「眾矢之的」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

矢: arrow; d: the center of the target. The target at which many arrows are shot. A metaphor for the object of everyone’s attack.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng shǐ zhī de

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung3 chi2 ji1 dik1

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