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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 「醉生夢死」—details below.

In this introduction, we explore the idiom 「醉生夢死」. Its definition and ways to use it are shown below.

Living in a daze and confusion, like being drunk and dreaming.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zuì shēng mèng sǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jeui3 saang1/sang1 mung6 sei2

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