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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「儻來之物」. Meaning and usage are below.

Discover the idiom 「儻來之物」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Tanglai: obtained by chance or unexpectedly. Property obtained accidentally or not deservedly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǎng lái zhī wù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tong2 loi4 ji1 mat6

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