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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「傷心慘目」. Explanation below.

Let’s learn about the idiom 「傷心慘目」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Sad: causing heartache; miserable: too terrible to be worthy of the sight. Describes something that is so tragic that one cannot bear to watch it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shāng xīn cǎn mù

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seung1 sam1 chaam2 muk6

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