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Free resources for learning Chinese are here for you! This series features idioms and proverbs with rich meanings. Check out 「外強中瘠」 and its details.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「外強中瘠」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

He appears strong on the outside, but is actually very weak.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wài qiáng zhōng jí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngoi6 keung4 jung3/jung1 jek3

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