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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「洗耳恭聽」. Explanation below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「洗耳恭聽」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Wash your ears and listen to others respectfully. A polite expression when asking someone to speak. Means to listen attentively.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xǐ ěr gōng tīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sai2 yi5 gung1 teng1

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