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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「艱深晦澀」, with details below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「艱深晦澀」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Difficult: the language is profound and difficult to understand; obscure: the meaning is obscure and not smooth. Describes an article with a profound style and difficult meaning.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiān shēn huì sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaan1 sam1 fui3 gip3

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