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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「殺身之禍」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

A disaster in which one’s own life is lost.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shā shēn zhī huò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

saat3 san1 ji1 wo6

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