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

This introduction highlights the idiom 「心狠手辣」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

He is cruel and ruthless.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn hěn shǒu là

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 han2 sau2 laat6

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