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

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「綠林強盜」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Refers to the robbers in the mountains.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lǜ lín qiáng dào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

luk6 lam4 keung4 dou6

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