We’re happy to bring you free Chinese lessons. This series dives into idioms and proverbs, meaningful and practical. Today’s phrase is 「興妖作亂」, with its usage explained below.
The idiom 「興妖作亂」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.
It is a metaphor for bad people causing damage or bad ideas spreading their influence. Same as “causing evil spirits to do mischief”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xìng yāo zuò luàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hing1 yiu2 jok3 lyun6
With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.
