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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「他山攻錯」, with more below.

Discover the idiom 「他山攻錯」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

A metaphor for using other people’s strengths to remedy one’s own weaknesses.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tā shān gōng cuò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ta1 saan1 gung1 cho3

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