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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「魂慚色褫」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「魂慚色褫」, with its definition and practical application described below.

It means to be ashamed, pale and frightened.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hún cán sè chǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wan4 chaam4 sik1 chi2

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