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This introduction highlights the idiom 「驚世震俗」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
World and common: refers to ordinary people. It horrifies ordinary people. Same as “shocking”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jīng shì zhèn sú
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
geng1 sai3 jan3 juk6
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