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Introducing the Chinese idiom 「鬼哭天愁」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
Describes misery and desolation.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
guǐ kū tiān chóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
gwai2 huk1 tin1 sau4
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