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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「觸類旁通」 for your learning.

Learn about the idiom 「觸類旁通」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Touch something: come into contact with things in a certain aspect; bypass: connect with each other. Once you have mastered the knowledge or rules of a certain thing, you can infer the knowledge or rules of similar things.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chù lèi páng tōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

juk1 leui6 pong4 tung1

The world of Chinese idioms is immense, with countless meanings and applications to discover. We hope these resources help you unlock the beauty of learning Chinese.