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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「長噓短歎」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「長噓短歎」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Refers to sighing endlessly.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhǎng xū duǎn tàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

cheung4 heui1 dyun2 taan3

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