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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 「民不堪命」, with details below.

The idiom 「民不堪命」 we’re featuring is explained below, showcasing its meaning and usage.

The people are burdened with heavy burdens and suffer so much that they can hardly survive.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

mín bù kān mìng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

man4 bat1 ham1 meng6

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