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To master Chinese, begin with characters, move to words, and then idioms. Here’s the idiom 「雞犬不安」 explained, free of charge.

We’re presenting the idiom 「雞犬不安」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

It describes a harassment that is so severe that even chickens and dogs cannot rest in peace. Same as “chickens and dogs are in unrest.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jī quǎn bù ān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gai1 hyun2 bat1 on1

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