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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「跌蕩不羈」, detailing its meaning and use.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「跌蕩不羈」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means that the mind is unrestrained and free. Same as “unrestrained and unruly”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

diē dàng bù jī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

dit3 dong6 bat1 gei1

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