To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「避實就虛」 explained, free of charge.
This feature highlights the idiom 「避實就虛」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
It means avoiding the enemy’s main force and finding the enemy’s weakness to attack. It also refers to avoiding the key points when discussing the issue.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bì shí jiù xū
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bei6 sat6 jau6 heui1
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