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Discover the idiom 「計窮智短」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.

Ji: strategy; Qiong: to the fullest; Zhi: wisdom; Short: lacking. All strategies have been used up and there is no more wisdom. Used to describe that one has run out of solutions.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jì qióng zhì duǎn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gai3/gai2 kung4 ji3 dyun2

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