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Offering free Chinese study resources is our priority. This series showcases idioms and proverbs, widely applicable phrases. Today’s idiom is 「聲淚俱下」, explained here.

Here, we present the idiom 「聲淚俱下」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.

Crying as he spoke. Describes extreme sorrow.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

shēng lèi jù xià

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

seng1 leui6 keui1 ha6

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