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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「酒食徵逐」 and how it’s used.

Introducing the idiom 「酒食徵逐」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Zheng: summon; Zhu: follow. Refers to friends who socialize over food and drink.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiǔ shí zhēng zhú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jau2 sik6 jing1 juk6

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