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Progress in Chinese starts with characters, then words, finally idioms. Here’s a free look at 「百無聊賴」 and its explanation.

Here is the Chinese idiom 「百無聊賴」, along with its meaning and how it is used.

Liaolai: dependent. I have nothing to rely on spiritually and feel that nothing is meaningful.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

bǎi wú liáo lài

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

baak3 mou4 liu4 laai6

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