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Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「家道中落」, with details below.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「家道中落」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

The family business declined and the situation was not as prosperous as before.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

jiā dào zhōng luò

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ga1 dou6 jung3/jung1 lok6

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