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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: 「起死回生」.

The idiom 「起死回生」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Resurrect the dying person. Used to describe excellent medical skills. It also refers to saving something that is already hopeless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qǐ sǐ huí shēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hei2 sei2 wui4 sang1

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