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Learn about the idiom 「扶顛持危」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Upside down: to turn over, to tip over; hold: to hold, to grasp. It means being able to save a dangerous situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fú diān chí wēi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu4 din1 chi4 ngai4

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