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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「白色恐怖」 and its explanation.

This feature highlights the idiom 「白色恐怖」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

White: Pale. Refers to the terrifying atmosphere created by the reactionaries’ brutal suppression of the people.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bái sè kǒng bù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak6 sik1 hung2 bou3

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