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Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「分崩離析」 for your learning.

Here’s the idiom 「分崩離析」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Collapse: collapse; separation: separate. Collapse and disintegration. Describes the disintegration of a country or group.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

fèn bēng lí xī

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

fan1 bang1 lei4 sik1

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