4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 167

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We’re presenting the idiom 「天奪之魄」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Po: soul. God took away his soul. It is a metaphor that people are not far from death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tiān duó zhī pò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tin1 dyut6 ji1 paak3

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