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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「鷹嘴鷂目」 and how it’s used.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「鷹嘴鷂目」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes a treacherous and vicious appearance.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīng zuǐ yáo mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ying1 jeui2 yiu6 muk6

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