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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「一座皆驚」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Everyone present was amazed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yī zuò jiē jīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yat1 jo6 gaai1 geng1

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