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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「爭短論長」, detailing its meaning and use.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「爭短論長」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Still competing for who is taller or shorter.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhēng duǎn lùn zhǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jang1 dyun2 leun6 cheung4/jeung2

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