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The featured idiom 「鬼哭神愁」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.

Describes fear and sorrow.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

guǐ kū shén chóu

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gwai2 huk1 san4 sau4

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