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The featured idiom 「犬牙相錯」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
Cuo: cross, mixed. It is a metaphor that the boundary line is very tortuous and jagged like dog’s teeth. It also means that the situation is complicated and there are many factors intertwined on both sides.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
quǎn yá xiàng cuò
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hyun2 nga4 seung2 cho3
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