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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「負乘致寇」 for your learning.

Learn about the idiom 「負乘致寇」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

It means that if you are in an inappropriate position and are incompetent, you will invite disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fù chéng zhì kòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu6 sing4 ji3 kau3

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