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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「鶴怨猿驚」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Describes the feeling of being tired of officialdom and wanting to retire.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

hè yuàn yuán jīng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hok2 yun3 yun4 geng1

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