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This feature highlights the idiom 「計窮力盡」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

Ji: strategy; Qiong, Qu: to use up, to exhaust. All strategies and strength have been used up.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jì qióng lì jìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gai3/gai2 kung4 lik6 jeun6

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