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Here is the Chinese idiom 「驚魂喪魄」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Describes being extremely frightened.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīng hún sàng pò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

geng1 wan4 song1/song3 paak3

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