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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「挑幺挑六」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

One, six: the number on the dice. Be picky and find faults.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiāo yāo tiāo liù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tiu1 yiu1 tiu1 luk6

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