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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「艱難竭蹶」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes low income and a difficult life.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiān nán jié juě

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gaan1 naan4 kit3 kyut3

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