Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「作奸犯科」, explained here.
Discover the idiom 「作奸犯科」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Jian: bad thing; Ke: legal provisions. To commit crimes and violate the law.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
zuò jiān fàn kē
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
jok3 gaan1 faan6 fo1
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