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Chinese language progresses from characters to idioms. This free guide explains the advanced idiom 「忐忑不定」 for better learning.

This feature highlights the idiom 「忐忑不定」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

I felt extremely uneasy. Same as “nervous”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tǎn tè bù dìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

taan2 tik1 bat1 ding6

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