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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: 「毫發不爽」.

Learn about the idiom 「毫發不爽」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Hao: fine hair; fa: hair; shuang: mistake. Describes something that is exactly right.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

háo fā bù shuǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hou4 faat3 bat1 song2

Chinese idioms, with their vast variety, hold different meanings and uses. Their abundance makes studying them rewarding, and these materials are here to help you along the way.