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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「計窮途拙」 explained, free of charge.

We’re presenting the idiom 「計窮途拙」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

It means there is nothing you can do and no way out.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jì qióng tú zhuō

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gai3/gai2 kung4 tou4 jyut3

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