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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「桀敖不馴」. Meaning and usage are below.

Learn about the idiom 「桀敖不馴」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Fierce and stubborn, arrogant and disobedient. Same as “unruly and unruly”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jié áo bù xùn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

git6 ngou4 bat1 seun4

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.