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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「萬箭穿心」 and its explanation.

Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「萬箭穿心」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

It’s like a thousand arrows piercing my heart. Describes extreme pain.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

wàn jiàn chuān xīn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

maan6 jin3 chyun1 sam1

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