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

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「被發文身」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

To have hair scattered: to let it all hang loose; to have tattoos on the body: to have tattoos on the body. Originally refers to the customs of the ancient Wu and Yue regions. Later it was also used to refer to the customs of uncivilized areas.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bèi fā wén shēn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 faat3 man4 san1

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