4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 531

Enjoy free Chinese learning resources from us! This series covers idioms and proverbs, which are meaningful and useful in various scenarios. Let’s explore 「心驚膽顫」 and its usage below.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「心驚膽顫」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes being extremely scared. Same as “terrified”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn jīng dǎn chàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 geng1 daam2 jin3

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