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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「傳為笑柄」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「傳為笑柄」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Laughing stock: Material for making fun of. It was circulated and people treated it as a joke.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

chuán wéi xiào bǐng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chyun4 wai6/wai4 siu3 beng3

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