4 characters Idiom and proverb 4 581

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The Chinese idiom 「支離破碎」 we’re introducing today is explained in detail below, along with its meaning and usage.

Fragmented: scattered, incomplete. Describes things that are scattered, broken and incomplete.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

zhī lí pò suì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ji1 lei4 po3 seui3

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