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We aim to support your Chinese studies with free resources. In this series, we explore idioms and proverbs, full of meaning. Today’s feature is 「聞風而至」, explained below.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「聞風而至」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Come as soon as you hear the news. Describes quick action.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén fēng ér zhì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 fung1 yi4 ji3

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