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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「昏庸無道」.

The idiom 「昏庸無道」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Confused and mediocre, cruel and brutal, and without morality. It is often used to refer to confused, incompetent, cruel and brutal emperors.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hūn yōng wú dào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan1 yung4 mou4 dou6

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.