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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「八面圓通」, with its usage explained below.

The idiom 「八面圓通」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Describes a person who is smooth in dealing with people and things and can handle everything well.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bā miàn yuán tōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baat3 min6 yun4 tung1

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