Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「掛肚牽腸」, with more below.
Learn about the idiom 「掛肚牽腸」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
It expresses extreme concern and care.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guà dù qiān cháng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwa3 tou5 hin1 cheung2
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