Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「劌心鉥腎」, explained here.
This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「劌心鉥腎」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Describes the act of thinking hard and doing something deliberately. Same as “piercing the heart and intestines”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guì xīn xù shèn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai3 sam1 seut6 san5
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