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Here is the Chinese idiom 「啼饑號寒」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Cry: cry; howl: shout. Crying because of hunger and cold. Describes the miserable life of hunger and cold.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tí qí hào hán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tai4 gei1 hou6 hon4

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