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Learning Chinese starts simple with characters, advances to words, and peaks with idioms. Explore the free idiom 「轉死溝壑」 here, with meaning and examples.

Our focus this time is on the idiom 「轉死溝壑」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.

Refers to abandoning corpses in ravines or ditches.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhuǎn sǐ gōu hè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jyun3 sei2 kau1 kok3

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