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For this session, we will be discussing the idiom 「生民塗炭」. See below for its meaning and practical usage.
Describes a situation in which people are in extreme hardship.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shēng mín tú tàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
saang1/sang1 man4 tou4 taan3
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