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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「兵戈擾攘」 for your learning.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「兵戈擾攘」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Bingge: weapons, referring to war; taorang: chaos. Describes the turbulent and chaotic social order during wartime.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bīng gē rǎo rǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bing1 gwo1 yiu2 yeung4

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.