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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「以眾暴寡」.

The idiom 「以眾暴寡」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

A group with more people and more power bullies and persecutes a smaller and weaker group.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yǐ zhòng bào guǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi5 jung3 bou6 gwa2

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