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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「急管繁弦」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Urgent: fast; complex: complicated. Describes the lively scene of various musical instruments being played at the same time.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jí guǎn fán xián

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gap1 gun2 faan4 yin4

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