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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「七歪八扭」, explained here.

Here’s the idiom 「七歪八扭」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes something that is crooked.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī wāi bā niǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 me2 baat3 nau2

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