Character combinations make words; words evolve into idioms. Learn 「哀毀瘠立」 today with this free Chinese resource.
This introduction highlights the idiom 「哀毀瘠立」, with its meaning and examples explained below.
In the old days, it was used to describe a person who was so sad after the death of his parents that he became as thin as a bag of bones.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
āi huì jí lì
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
oi1 wai2 jek3 lap6
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