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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「捕風捉影」, with its explanation below.

The featured idiom 「捕風捉影」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

The wind and the shadow are both elusive. A metaphor for speaking and doing things without any factual basis.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǔ fēng zhuō yǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bou6 fung1 juk1 ying2

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.