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From the basics of characters to complex idioms, Chinese learning can be challenging. This free guide highlights the idiom 「燕安鴆毒」. Details below.

The idiom 「燕安鴆毒」 and its usage are explored below. Learn its meaning and applications here.

It means that pursuing comfort and pleasure is equivalent to drinking poison and committing suicide. Same as “Yan’an poison”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yàn ān zhèn dú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin3 on1 jam6 duk6

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