Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「七彎八拐」 here, with meaning and examples.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「七彎八拐」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
There are many bends and the direction is constantly changing. It also describes doing things in a not straightforward manner. Same as “seven bends and eight turns”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qī wān bā guǎi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chat1 waan1/waang1 baat3 gwaai2
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