Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「短中取長」 and its usage.
Here’s the idiom 「短中取長」, with its definition and practical application described below.
It means choosing the better one from the general ones.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
duǎn zhōng qǔ zhǎng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dyun2 jung3/jung1 cheui2 cheung4/jeung2
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