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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「悲歌易水」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Expressing a tragic and desolate atmosphere.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bēi gē yì shuǐ

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

bei1 go1 yi6 seui2

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