Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「東抹西塗」. Explanation below.
Here is the Chinese idiom 「東抹西塗」, along with its meaning and how it is used.
A metaphor for writing or drawing casually with a pen. Later it was used as a humble word to refer to one’s own writing or painting. Same as “smearing here and there”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dōng mò xī tú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
dung1 maat3/mut3 sai1 tou4
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