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Here’s the idiom 「生死之交」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A friendship of life and death.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shēng sǐ zhī jiāo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sang1 sei2 ji1 gaau1

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