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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「毀不滅性」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Confucian funeral system. It means being in mourning and grieving, but one should not lose his life because of it.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

huì bù miè xìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

wai2 bat1 mit6 sing3

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