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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「困獸猶鬥」. Explanation below.

We’re presenting the idiom 「困獸猶鬥」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

The trapped beast will make a final struggle. A metaphor for struggling and resisting in a desperate situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kùn shòu yóu dòu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kwan3 sau3 yau4 dau3

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