Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「衣冠禽獸」, with details below.
The idiom being introduced now is 「衣冠禽獸」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.
A beast in clothes. Refers to a person with extremely bad morals, who behaves as despicable as an animal.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī guàn qín shòu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yi1 gun3 kam4 sau3
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