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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「飛蓬乘風」 here, with meaning and examples.

The featured idiom 「飛蓬乘風」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Peng: Peng grass. It refers to the tumbleweed that spins and floats in the wind. It is a metaphor for people who have no firm will and change according to the circumstances. Same as “flying with the wind”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēi péng chéng fēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fei1 pung4 sing4 fung1

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