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Learn about the idiom 「自身難保」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

You can’t protect yourself.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zì shēn nán bǎo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji6 san1 naan4 bou2

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