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Our free Chinese learning series introduces idioms and proverbs. These timeless phrases hold valuable meanings and are worth studying. Today’s idiom is 「蜂合豕突」, detailed below.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「蜂合豕突」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Like a swarm of bees gathering, like wild boars running. It is a metaphor for a crowd of people gathering together and rushing around in a disorderly manner.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fēng hé shǐ tū

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fung1 hap6 chi2 dat6

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