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This introduction highlights the idiom 「慘不忍言」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

I can’t bear to speak out about the tragic situation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

cǎn bù rěn yán

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

chaam2 bat1 yan2 yin4

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