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Chinese begins with basics like characters, builds up to words, and reaches idioms. This free resource introduces advanced idioms like 「鬼形怪狀」, with details below.

Here’s the idiom 「鬼形怪狀」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means strange and bizarre. Refers to unusual and strange shapes.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǐ xíng guài zhuàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai2 ying4 gwaai3 jong6

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