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Let’s learn about the idiom 「石沉大海」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

The stone sank to the bottom of the sea. A metaphor for no news from then on.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shí chén dà hǎi

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sek6 cham4 daai6 hoi2

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