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Learn about the idiom 「怕硬欺軟」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Fear the strong and bully the weak.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pà yìng qī ruǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pa3 ngaang6 hei1 yun5

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