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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「魄散魂消」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Describes extreme fear and panic. Same as “soul-splitting”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pò sàn hún xiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

paak3 saan2 wan4 siu1

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