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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「噤口捲舌」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Refers to keeping silent.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
jìn kǒu juǎn shé
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gam3 hau2 gyun2 sit3
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