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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「風瀟雨晦」 and how it’s used.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「風瀟雨晦」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes strong winds, heavy rain and dark sky. It also refers to a dangerous situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng xiāo yǔ huì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 siu1 yu5 fui3

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