Free Chinese learning, tailored for you! This series highlights idioms and proverbs, useful in many contexts. Let’s explain 「身首異處」 and how it’s used.
This feature highlights the idiom 「身首異處」, with its meaning and examples shown below.
Shou: head; Yi: different; Chu: place. Refers to being beheaded.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shēn shǒu yì chù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
san1 sau2 yi6 chyu5
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