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Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「柳泣花啼」 and how it’s used.

The featured idiom 「柳泣花啼」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Describes the scene of flowers and willows looking withered and gloomy in the wind and rain.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

liǔ qì huā tí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

lau5 yap1 fa1 tai4

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