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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「蜂目豺聲」, explained here.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「蜂目豺聲」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Eyes like a bee, voice like a jackal. Describes the appearance and voice of a bad person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng mù chái shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 muk6 chaai4 seng1

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