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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「驚惶失措」, explained here.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「驚惶失措」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

I was so frightened that I didn’t know what to do.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīng huáng shī cuò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

geng1 wong4 sat1 chou3

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