Your free Chinese learning resource is here! This idiom and proverb series introduces phrases rich in meaning. Today, we explain 「聞風遠揚」 and its usage.
For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「聞風遠揚」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Wind: wind, news. It means to run away as soon as you hear the slightest rumor.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wén fēng yuǎn yáng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
man4 fung1 yun5 yeung2/yeung4
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