Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「徹內徹外」, detailed below.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「徹內徹外」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
It means completely.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
chè nèi chè wài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chit3 noi6 chit3 ngoi6
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