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This time, we’re looking at the idiom 「孤苦零丁」. Its meaning and application are provided below.
Describes being lonely, miserable and helpless.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
gū kǔ líng dīng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gu1 fu2 ling4 ding1
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