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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「東張西覷」 explained, free of charge.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「東張西覷」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes looking everywhere here and there. Same as “looking around”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng zhāng xī qù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 jeung1 sai1 cheui3

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