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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「人琴兩亡」.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「人琴兩亡」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Describes the sad feeling of seeing relics and missing the dead. Same as “both the man and the piano died.”

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

rén qín liǎng wáng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yan4 kam4 leung5 mong4

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