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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「七顛八倒」, with more below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「七顛八倒」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Describes something that is extremely messy.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qī diān bā dǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chat1 din1 baat3 dou2

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