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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「興妖作怪」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

It is a metaphor for bad people causing damage or bad ideas spreading their influence.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xìng yāo zuò guài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hing1 yiu2 jok3 gwaai3

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