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Our focus this time is on the idiom 「陰魂不散」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

It is a metaphor that although the bad people and bad things have been eliminated, their negative influences are still having an impact.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīn hún bù sàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yam1 wan4 bat1 saan3

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