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Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「溘然長往」, with more below.

Learn about the idiom 「溘然長往」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.

Suddenly: suddenly. Refers to a person’s sudden death, often used as a word to mourn the dead.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

kè rán zhǎng wǎng

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

hap6 yin4 cheung4/jeung2 wong5

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