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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「剖心坼肝」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「剖心坼肝」, with its definition and practical application described below.

A metaphor for loyalty.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pōu xīn chè gān

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fau2 sam1 chaak3 gon1

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