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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「催人淚下」 for your learning.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「催人淚下」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

Urge: urge, prompt. Describes an event that is so touching that one can’t help but shed tears.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cuī rén lèi xià

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheui1 yan4 leui6 ha6

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