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This introduction highlights the idiom 「持刀動杖」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
Hold: take. Cane: wooden stick. Refers to the use of force.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chí dāo dòng zhàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chi4 dou1 dung6 jeung6/jeung2
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