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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「東奔西撞」, with details below.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「東奔西撞」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes the act of wandering around without a fixed goal.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dōng bēn xī zhuàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung1 ban1 sai1 jong6

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