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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「陰凝冰堅」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Yin energy begins to condense and turns into frost, and then gradually accumulates and becomes solid ice. It is a metaphor for a villain gradually gaining power and his position becoming increasingly stable.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yīn níng bīng jiān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yam1 ying4 bing1 gin1

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