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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「裝瘋作傻」.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「裝瘋作傻」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Deliberately pretending to be crazy and stupid. Same as “acting crazy or stupid”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuāng fēng zuò shǎ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jong1 fung1 jok3 so4

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