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

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「篡位奪權」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Usurpation: seize, especially refers to a minister seizing the throne. Seize the position and power of the monarch.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cuàn wèi duó quán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saan3 wai2 dyut6 kyun4

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