4 characters Idiom and proverb 9 999

Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「言出禍隨」 here, with meaning and examples.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「言出禍隨」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

As soon as the words are spoken, disaster follows. Same as “One word brings disaster.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán chū huò suí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 cheut1 wo6 cheui4

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