Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「聞名喪膽」. Explanation below.
The featured idiom 「聞名喪膽」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
I got scared when I heard the name. It is used to describe a person who has such great reputation that people are very frightened when they hear it.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
wén míng sàng dǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
man4 ming4 song1/song3 daam2
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