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Here is the Chinese idiom 「東差西誤」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Refers to the occurrence of one mistake or another. Describes the incompetence of doing things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng chà xī wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 cha1 sai1 ng6

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