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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「喙長三尺」—details below.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「喙長三尺」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Beak: mouth. The mouth is three feet long. Describes a person who is good at argument.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huì zhǎng sān chǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fui3 cheung4/jeung2 saam1 chek3

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