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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「苦雨淒風」 for your learning.

Let’s dive into the idiom 「苦雨淒風」. Its definition and application are outlined below.

Bitter rain: rain that lasts for a long time and causes disastrous consequences; bitter wind: cold wind. Describes bad weather. Later it was used to describe a miserable and desolate situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kǔ yǔ qī fēng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fu2 yu5 chai1 fung1

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