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From basics to advanced idioms, Chinese study culminates with phrases like 「節哀順變」. Explore their meaning and use in this free guide.

This introduction highlights the idiom 「節哀順變」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

Suppress your sorrow and adapt to circumstances. Words used to express condolences to the family of the deceased.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiē āi shùn biàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

jit3 oi1 seun6 bin3

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