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Chinese study involves characters, phrases, and idioms. This resource introduces 「摧身碎首」 as part of advanced learning. Explanation below.

Learn about the idiom 「摧身碎首」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

That is to be shattered into pieces.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cuī shēn suì shǒu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui1 san1 seui3 sau2

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