4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 332

Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「餓虎之蹊」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「餓虎之蹊」, with its definition and practical application described below.

metaphor for a very dangerous place.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

è hǔ zhī qī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngo6 fu2 ji1 hai4

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