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Understanding Chinese starts with simple characters, grows to phrases, and finally idioms. Learn 「碎屍萬段」 today for free with this guide.

This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「碎屍萬段」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.

It means that those who commit heinous crimes will be severely punished.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

suì shī wàn duàn

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seui3 si1 maan6 dyun6

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