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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「魄散魂飛」 and how it’s used.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「魄散魂飛」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Describes being extremely frightened.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pò sàn hún fēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

paak3 saan2 wan4 fei1

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