Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「別有心肝」 and how it’s used.
We’re presenting the idiom 「別有心肝」 this time—its explanation and use are detailed below.
It means having other plans and intentions. Still have lungs and intestines.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bié yǒu xīn gān
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bit6 yau5 sam1 gon1
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