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This introduction highlights the idiom 「言語路絕」, with its meaning and examples explained below.

It’s like saying that words cannot express the truth. It means that the problem cannot be solved through conversation or negotiation.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

yán yǔ lù jué

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

yin4 yu5 lou6 jyut6

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