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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「損兵折將」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Loss: loss. Both sergeants and generals suffered losses. Refers to a defeat.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

sǔn bīng shé jiāng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

syun2 bing1 jit3 jeung1

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