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Learn about the idiom 「痛入心脾」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Describes grief that has reached its extreme.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

tòng rù xīn pí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

tung3 yap6 sam1 pei4

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