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Learn about the idiom 「鬼哭神驚」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes extreme fear.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǐ kū shén jīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai2 huk1 san4 geng1

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