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Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「人命危淺」 today with this free Chinese resource.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「人命危淺」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Shallow: short time. Describes a short life and impending death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén mìng wēi qiǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 meng6 ngai4 chin2

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