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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「博識多通」 for your learning.

Learn about the idiom 「博識多通」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Bo: broad. Knowledge: knowledge. Tong: Proficient in things. It means being knowledgeable and well-versed in affairs.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bó shí duō tōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bok3 sik1 do1 tung1

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