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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「統籌兼顧」.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「統籌兼顧」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Coordinate: to make overall plans; and: the original meaning is to hold two grains in one hand, which is extended to mean to do several things at the same time or possess several things; take care of: to take care of. Unified planning and comprehensive care.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǒng chóu jiān gù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung2 chau4 gim1 gu3

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