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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「斷井頹垣」 for your learning.

Introducing the Chinese idiom 「斷井頹垣」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.

Well: refers to the well fence; Yuan: refers to a short wall. Broken well curb and collapsed short wall. Describes the dilapidated scene of a courtyard.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

duàn jǐng tuí yuán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tyun5 jeng2 teui4 wun4

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