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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「恫疑虛猲」, detailing its meaning and use.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「恫疑虛猲」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Bluffing, intimidation and threats. Same as “intimidation and empty shouting”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dòng yí xū gé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dung6 yi4 heui1 hit3

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