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This feature highlights the idiom 「剖心泣血」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Describes being very sad. Same as “cutting open the liver and crying blood”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pōu xīn qì xuè

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fau2 sam1 yap1 hyut3

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