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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「東踅西倒」.

The idiom 「東踅西倒」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Describes the difficulty of walking.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng xué xī dǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 chyut3 sai1 dou2

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