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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「狗吠非主」 here, with meaning and examples.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「狗吠非主」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

It is a metaphor that each minister is loyal to his own monarch.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gǒu fèi fēi zhǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau2 fai6 fei1 jyu2

With so many Chinese idioms, each holding diverse meanings and uses, there is much to explore. These materials are designed to support your Chinese language studies.