Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「狐假虎威」 today for free with this guide.
Here, we present the idiom 「狐假虎威」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
False: borrow. The fox took advantage of the tiger’s power. A metaphor for relying on other people’s power to oppress others.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hú jiǎ hǔ wēi
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
wu4 ga2 fu2 wai1
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