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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「大煞風景」. Explanation below.

The idiom being introduced now is 「大煞風景」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Damage to the beautiful scenery. A metaphor for ruining one’s mood.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dà shà fēng jǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daai6 saat3 fung1 ging2

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