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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「不測之禍」. Explanation below.

The idiom being introduced now is 「不測之禍」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Measure: guess, predict. An unpredictable disaster. Mostly refers to imprisonment or death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bù cè zhī huò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bat1 chak1 ji1 wo6

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