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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「胸有鱗甲」 for your learning.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「胸有鱗甲」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

A metaphor for having evil intentions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xiōng yǒu lín jiǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hung1 yau5 leun4 gaap3

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