Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「絕長續短」 and how it’s used.
Let’s learn about the idiom 「絕長續短」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.
Jue: to cut off. Cut off the long ones and supplement the short ones. A metaphor for using strengths to make up for weaknesses.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jué zhǎng xù duǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jyut6 cheung4 juk6 dyun2
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