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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: 「飛來橫禍」.

Discover the idiom 「飛來橫禍」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

An unexpected disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēi lái héng huò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fei1 loi4 waang4 wo6

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