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Chinese education begins with characters, continues with phrases, and grows into idioms. This free lesson covers the idiom 「空口無憑」. Learn its usage below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「空口無憑」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Just words without any evidence. Just prove it with real objects.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kōng kǒu wú píng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung1 hau2 mou4 pang4/bang6

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