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From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「買空賣空」. Details below.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「買空賣空」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Neither the buyer nor the seller has any money flowing in or out, and the profit or loss is settled based only on the difference between the inflow and outflow. It is also used to refer to political fraudulent and speculative activities.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mǎi kōng mài kōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maai5 hung1 maai6 hung1

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