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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「三緘其口」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
Seal: seal. Three seals were placed on his mouth. Describes speaking cautiously. It is now also used to describe being unwilling or afraid to speak.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
sān jiān qí kǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saam1 gaam1 kei4 hau2
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