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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「視為兒戲」.

Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「視為兒戲」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

A metaphor for taking something lightly and disregarding it. Same as “treating it as a joke”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shì wéi ér xì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

si6 wai4 yi4 hei3

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