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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「東鳴西應」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「東鳴西應」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It means that all aspects are interconnected and influence each other.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng míng xī yīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 ming4 sai1 ying3/ying1

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