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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「寂然不動」 and how it’s used.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「寂然不動」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Silence: silence. It was silent and there was no movement at all.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jì rán bù dòng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jik6 yin4 bat1 dung6

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