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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「門殫戶盡」, with more below.

Here’s the idiom 「門殫戶盡」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to the death of the entire family.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mén dān hù jìn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

mun4 daan1 wu6 jeun6

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