Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「怒發衝冠」.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「怒發衝冠」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
It means being so angry that one’s hair stands on end and pushes up against the hat. Describes extreme anger.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
nù fā chōng guàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
nou6 faat3 chung1 gun3
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