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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「一箭上垛」 and its explanation.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「一箭上垛」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

A metaphor for speaking or doing things successfully at the first try.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī jiàn shàng duǒ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 jin3 seung5/seung6 do2

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