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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「遍體鱗傷」 for your learning.

The idiom 「遍體鱗傷」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

His whole body was covered with wounds, as dense as fish scales. Describes a serious injury.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

biàn tǐ lín shāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pin3 tai2 leun4 seung1

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