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肝膽相照
简 肝胆相照 · 繁 肝膽相照Mandarin · pinyin gān dǎn xiāng zhào
Meanings
- to treat one another with absolute sincerity (idiom); to show total devotion
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1–3–1–4 · gan1 dan3 xiang1 zhao4
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Rime Cantonese 粵拼
gon1 daam2 soeng1 ziu3
Cantonese word readings for 肝膽相照. This lexicon supplies readings, not definitions.
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gon1 daam2 soeng1 ziu3
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- (idiomatic) to treat one another with absolute sincerity; to show total devotion
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