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堅過石堅
gin1 gwo3 sek6 gin1
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an emphatic reply to a question if something is really true or not. (lit.) harder than a hard rock, or harder than Shek Gin (Shih Kien, an actor famous for playing the villain in Cantonese martial art movies - source: Wikipedia)
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Characters in this word:堅 gin1 - hard; steadfastly; real過 gwo3 - pass through; across 石 sek6 daam3 - stone; rock; stone inscription 堅 gin1 - hard; steadfastly; real |
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