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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「一筆勾銷」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「一筆勾銷」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Wipe the account clean. A metaphor for canceling everything.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī bǐ gōu xiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 bat1 ngau1 siu1

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.