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Learning Chinese grows from characters to words and then idioms. We’ve created free tools to help you master idioms like 「一身是膽」, explained here.

We’re presenting the idiom 「一身是膽」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.

Describes being brave and fearless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī shēn shì dǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 san1 si6 daam2

The vastness of Chinese idioms, with their many meanings and applications, is inspiring. We hope these resources will guide you in your language-learning adventure.