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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「三智五猜」 and how it’s used.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「三智五猜」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A metaphor for using all your thoughts and making many guesses.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sān zhì wǔ cāi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saam1 ji3 ng5 chaai1

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