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Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「目不忍睹」. Explanation below.

This feature highlights the idiom 「目不忍睹」, with its meaning and examples shown below.

The scene is so miserable that it is unbearable to look at.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mù bù rěn dǔ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

muk6 bat1 yan2 dou2

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