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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「凶終隙未」, explained here.

We’re presenting the idiom 「凶終隙未」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

It means that friendship does not last forever and friends will eventually become enemies. Gap, suspicion, hatred.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiōng zhōng xì wèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung1 jung1 kwik1/gwik1 mei6

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.