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This feature highlights the idiom 「氣忍聲吞」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
When you are angry, you just endure it and don’t say anything. Used to describe being cowardly.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
qì rěn shēng tūn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hei3 yan2 seng1 tan1
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