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Today, we explore the idiom 「七竅冒火」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Describes being extremely angry. Same as “smoke coming out of the seven orifices”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī qiào mào huǒ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 kiu3/hiu3 mou6 fo2

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