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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「心焦如火」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.
I felt anxious as if I was on fire. It is used to describe an unbearable feeling of anxiety, also written as “burning with anxiety”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
xīn jiāo rú huǒ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sam1 jiu1 yu4 fo2
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