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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「觀者如堵」, with its usage explained below.

Discover the idiom 「觀者如堵」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Block: wall. Describes a large number of viewers.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guān zhě rú dǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gun1 je2 yu4 dou2

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