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

The idiom being introduced now is 「驚風駭浪」. Below, you’ll find its meaning and usage examples.

A metaphor for something that shocks the world and is extremely unusual.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīng fēng hài làng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

geng1 fung1 haai5 long6

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