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Let’s learn about the idiom 「故土難離」! Its detailed explanation and usage are presented below.

Homeland: place of birth, or place where one lived in the past, here refers to hometown or motherland. It is difficult to leave the land of hometown. Describes the infinite attachment to one’s hometown or motherland.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

gù tǔ nán lí

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

gu2/gu3 tou2 naan4 lei4

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