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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「被山帶河」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Backed by mountains and surrounded by rivers. Refers to a place with a dangerous situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bèi shān dài hé

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei6 saan1 daai3/daai2 ho4

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