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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「賊頭賊腦」.

Discover the idiom 「賊頭賊腦」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Describes actions that are sneaky and not upright.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zéi tóu zéi nǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaak2 tau4 chaak2 nou5

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