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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「虛張聲勢」 today for free with this guide.

The idiom 「虛張聲勢」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

Zhang: extravagant, exaggerated. Pretend to be powerful. It refers to creating a false momentum to scare people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xū zhāng shēng shì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

heui1 jeung1 sing1 sai3

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