4 characters Idiom and proverb 26 725

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 「橫禍非災」, with details below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「橫禍非災」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

It means sudden disaster or calamity. Refers to an unexpected and unprovoked disaster.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

héng huò fēi zāi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

waang4 wo6 fei1 joi1

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