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Learn about the idiom 「阿鼻地獄」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Avici: The transliteration of Sanskrit, literally means “uninterrupted suffering”, which means suffering without interruption. It is often used to describe a dark society and a harsh prison. It also refers to an extremely painful situation that cannot be escaped.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
ā bí dì yù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
a3 bei6 dei6 yuk6
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