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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「禍福無門」, with details below.

The featured idiom 「禍福無門」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Wumen: There is no fixed number. It means that disaster and happiness are not predetermined, but are caused by people themselves.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huò fú wú mén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wo6 fuk1 mou4 mun4

There’s no shortage of Chinese idioms, each offering unique meanings and ways to use them. This guide is here to assist you as you improve your understanding of the language.