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Chinese learners move from characters to idioms as the highest level. This free resource explains 「殘渣餘孽」 below.

Discover the idiom 「殘渣餘孽」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

A metaphor for the remaining bad guys or evil forces that have not been completely eliminated.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cán zhā yú niè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaan4 ja1/ja2 yu4 yit6

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