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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「風言影語」 here, with meaning and examples.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「風言影語」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Groundless words.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng yán yǐng yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 yin4 ying2 yu5

Chinese idioms are incredibly numerous, each carrying a special meaning and usage. This variety is a great reason to study them, and we hope these tools make that easier for you.