Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「傷心疾首」 for your learning.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「傷心疾首」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Heartbroken, used to describe extreme sorrow.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shāng xīn jí shǒu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
seung1 sam1 jat6 sau2
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