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杜鹃啼血

dù juān tí xuè

4-character word Traditional 杜鵑啼血

What 杜鹃啼血 means

1. lit. the cuckoo, after its tears are exhausted, continues by weeping blood (idiom)
2. fig. extreme grief

The characters in 杜鹃啼血

• 杜dùbirchleaf pear (tree); to stop; to prevent
• 鹃juāncuckoo
• 啼tí(bound form) to cry; to weep loudly; (bound form) (of a bird or animal) to crow; to hoot…
• 血xuèblood; colloquial pr. xiě

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