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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「道寡稱孤」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「道寡稱孤」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

It means to proclaim oneself king and dominate a region.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dào guǎ chēng gū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dou6 gwa2 ching1 gu1

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