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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「阿狗阿貓」 for your learning.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「阿狗阿貓」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

A nickname commonly used by people in the old days. It is extended to mean any person or work that is of little value and not worthy of attention.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ā gǒu ā māo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

a3 gau2 a3 maau1

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