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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「重足屏息」 and how it’s used.

Let us introduce the Chinese idiom 「重足屏息」, with its explanation and usage provided below.

Refers to extreme fear.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhòng zú píng xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jung6 juk1 ping4 sik1

There are a countless number of Chinese idioms, each with unique meanings and applications. We’ve provided these resources to help guide you as you dive deeper into learning Chinese.