4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 668

From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「機關算盡」. Details below.

Discover the idiom 「機關算盡」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Mechanism: a careful and clever plan. A metaphor for putting in a lot of thought.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jī guān suàn jìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gei1 gwaan1 syun3 jeun6

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