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We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「七口八嘴」, with its usage explained below.

Here’s the idiom 「七口八嘴」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes a crowd of people talking at random. Same as “chatter”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī kǒu bā zuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 hau2 baat3 jeui2

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.