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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「百鬼眾魅」 and how it’s used.

We’re presenting the idiom 「百鬼眾魅」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

All kinds of monsters and demons.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎi guǐ zhòng mèi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak3 gwai2 jung3 mei6

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