To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「暴內陵外」 explained, free of charge.
This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「暴內陵外」, with its definition and usage detailed below.
Violence: cruelty; Ling: same as “Ling”, invasion, humiliation. They harm the people at home and oppress the weak abroad.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bào nèi líng wài
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bou6 noi6 ling4 ngoi6
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