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Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「冷語冰人」.

Today, we explore the idiom 「冷語冰人」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Hurting people with cruel words.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lěng yǔ bīng rén

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

laang5 yu5 bing1 yan4

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