4 characters Idiom and proverb 17 479

Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「密不通風」 here, with meaning and examples.

The idiom being introduced now is 「密不通風」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

Describes a situation where something is surrounded so tightly or guarded so tightly that not even the wind can get through.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mì bù tōng fēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mat6 bat1 tung1 fung1

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