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

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「氣吞宇宙」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Still as powerful as a mountain and a river. Used to describe someone who has great courage.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qì tūn yǔ zhòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hei3 tan1 yu5 jau6

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