4 characters Idiom and proverb 24 493

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This time, we present the Chinese idiom 「聞風而興」, with its definition and usage detailed below.

As soon as he heard the wind, he immediately got up and responded. Same as “rise to attention”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wén fēng ér xìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 fung1 yi4 hing1

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