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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「驚心悼膽」 today for free with this guide.

Discover the idiom 「驚心悼膽」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Mourning: shudder. Describes fear to the extreme.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jīng xīn dào dǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

geng1 sam1 dou6 daam2

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