Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「東討西徵」, with details below.
This feature highlights the idiom 「東討西徵」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It refers to sending troops to fight and conquer in all directions. Same as “conquering the east and the west”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng tǎo xī zhēng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 tou2 sai1 jing1
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