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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 「九回腸斷」.

Here’s the idiom 「九回腸斷」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes pain, worry, and depression reaching their extreme.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiǔ huí cháng duàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gau2 wui4 cheung2 tyun5

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