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The Chinese journey moves from characters to idioms. This free tool explores 「鵠形鳥面」, detailing its meaning and use.

Learn about the idiom 「鵠形鳥面」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Refers to the appearance of being hungry, tired and thin.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hú xíng niǎo miàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

huk6 ying4 niu5 min6/min2

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