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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「牽鬼上劍」—details below.

Today, we explore the idiom 「牽鬼上劍」. Below, we’ll cover its meaning and practical uses.

Metaphors are very difficult.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qiān guǐ shàng jiàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hin1 gwai2 seung5/seung6 gim3

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