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We’re sharing free Chinese learning content with you. Idioms and proverbs, full of meaning, are explored in this series. Today, we present 「窮極無聊」.

The idiom 「窮極無聊」 is the focus of our introduction today, and its explanation and application are listed below.

Extreme: poor; boring: having no support. Originally it refers to a poor situation and a lack of spiritual support. It is now also used to describe having nothing to do and being very bored.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

qióng jí wú liáo

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

kung4 gik6 mou4 liu4

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