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Today’s featured Chinese idiom is 「心灰意冷」, and its meaning and usage are explained below.

Discouraged and depressed.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

xīn huī yì lěng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

sam1 fui1 yi3 laang5

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