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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「窩停主人」, explained here.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「窩停主人」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

A person or family who hides thieves or stolen goods.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wō tíng zhǔ rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wo1 ting4 jyu2 yan4

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