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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「汗流浹體」. Explanation below.

The Chinese idiom 「汗流浹體」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.

Sweat all over the body. Describes extreme fear.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hàn liú jiā tǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hon6 lau4 jip3 tai2

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