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Introducing the idiom 「猿啼鶴唳」: its meaning and how to use it are provided below.

The monkeys and cranes cried miserably.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yuán tí hè lì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yun4 tai4 hok2 leui6

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