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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「繃爬弔拷」.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「繃爬弔拷」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

They were forcibly stripped of their clothes, tied up, hung up and tortured. Same as “彈拉掛拷”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bēng pá diào kǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bang1 pa4 diu3 haau1/haau2

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