4 characters Idiom and proverb 3 937

Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「勾魂攝魄」. Explanation below.

This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「勾魂攝魄」. Its meaning and application are provided below.

Describes something as having a very strong attraction or intimidating power.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gōu hún shè pò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ngau1 wan4 sip3 paak3

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