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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「馬首是瞻」, with its explanation below.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「馬首是瞻」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Look at the direction of my horse’s head and decide whether to advance or retreat. A metaphor for following someone’s actions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎ shǒu shì zhān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ma5 sau2 si6 jim1

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