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Learn about the idiom 「嘔心抽腸」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes extreme sadness.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

ǒu xīn chōu cháng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

au2 sam1 chau1 cheung2

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