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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「豺狼虎豹」 and how it’s used.

We’re presenting the idiom 「豺狼虎豹」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Refers to all kinds of ferocious beasts that harm humans and animals. It also refers to a cruel and evil person.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chái láng hǔ bào

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaai4 long4 fu2 paau3

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