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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「膽戰心搖」, with more below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「膽戰心搖」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

Describes being extremely scared.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

dǎn zhàn xīn yáo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

daam2 jin3 sam1 yiu4

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