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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「玩忽職守」 and how it’s used.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「玩忽職守」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Not treating one’s job seriously and irresponsibly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wán hū zhí shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waan2 fat1 jik1 sau2

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