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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「燕安酖毒」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「燕安酖毒」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

It means indulging in comfort and pleasure, which is like drinking poison and committing suicide.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yàn ān dān dú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin3 on1 daam1 duk6

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