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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「急風驟雨」, with details below.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「急風驟雨」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Severe wind and rain. It is often used to describe something that is huge and swift.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí fēng zhòu yǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gap1 fung1 jaau6 yu5

Chinese idioms come in large numbers, with diverse meanings and usages, offering endless learning opportunities. We hope these resources make it easier for you to study Chinese.