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Here is the Chinese idiom 「安如盤石」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

An: stable; Panshi: big stone. As steady as a rock. Describes something that is very stable and cannot be shaken.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ān rú pán shí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

on1 yu4 pun2/pun4 sek6

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