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Mastering Chinese involves learning single characters, creating words, and finally, idioms. This free idiom resource introduces 「神魂搖蕩」, with its explanation below.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「神魂搖蕩」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes a state of being confused and difficult to grasp. Also written as “the spirit is shaken and the soul is wandering”, “the spirit is soaring”, and “the spirit is floating”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shén hún yáo dàng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

san4 wan4 yiu4 dong6

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.