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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「令原之戚」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「令原之戚」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Refers to the death of a brother.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

lìng yuán zhī qī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

ling6 yun4 ji1 chik1

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