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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「豕突狼奔」, explained here.

The idiom 「豕突狼奔」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

豕: pig; 突: rush forward. Charge like a pig and run like a wolf. Describes a group of bad guys rushing around and causing trouble everywhere.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shǐ tū láng bēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chi2 dat6 long4 ban1

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