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After learning basic characters, the next level in Chinese is combining them into words, and then idioms. This free guide helps you understand advanced idioms like 「神短氣浮」. Meaning and usage are below.

Learn about the idiom 「神短氣浮」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Refers to a shallow and impetuous nature.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shén duǎn qì fú

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

san4 dyun2 hei3 fau4

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