4 characters Idiom and proverb 21 943

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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「傾耳注目」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

Focus: concentrate your eyes and pay attention. Originally used to describe someone who has great power and is feared by everyone. Later it also describes extremely concentrated attention.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qīng ěr zhù mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

king1 yi5 jyu3 muk6

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