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Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「面無人色」—details below.

For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「面無人色」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.

His face was pale. Describes being extremely frightened or very weak.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

miàn wú rén sè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

min6/min2 mou4 yan4 sik1

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