Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「風雲人物」 and how it’s used.
We’re presenting the idiom 「風雲人物」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
Refers to a person who is active for a while and whose words and actions can influence the overall situation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
fēng yún rén wù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
fung1 wan4 yan4 mat6
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