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Introducing the idiom 「泉石膏肓」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.
Quanshi: refers to mountains and rivers; Gaohuang: The ancients called the fat at the apex of the heart “gao” and the area between the heart and the diaphragm “huang”. It is said that this is the place where medicine cannot reach. A metaphor for being obsessed with mountains and rivers.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
quán shí gāo huāng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
chyun4 sek6 gou1 fong1
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