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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「當局者迷」, with more below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「當局者迷」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Mi: confused, bewildered. It means that the person involved is confused.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dāng jú zhě mí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dong1 guk6 je2 mai4

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