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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「一坐皆驚」—details below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「一坐皆驚」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

It means that everyone in the room was amazed and impressed. Same as “everyone was shocked when they sat there”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī zuò jiē jīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 cho5 gaai1 geng1

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