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Introducing the idiom 「意懶心慵」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

Lazy and indolent: tired and depressed. Feeling lazy and depressed. Also written as “lazy mind and lazy heart”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yì lǎn xīn yōng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yi3 laan5/laan2 sam1 yung4

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