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Today’s spotlight is on the Chinese idiom 「洶湧澎湃」. You’ll find its explanation and usage below.

Surge: the violent upwelling of a flood; surging: the waves crashing into each other. Describes a huge and unstoppable momentum.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiōng yǒng péng pài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung1 yung2 paang4 baai3

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