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肝肠寸断

gān cháng cùn duàn

4-character word Traditional 肝腸寸斷

What 肝肠寸断 means

1. lit. liver and guts cut to pieces (idiom)
2. fig. grief-stricken

The characters in 肝肠寸断

• 肝gānliver; (slang) to put in long hours, typically late into the night, playing…
• 肠chángintestines
• 寸cùna unit of length; inch; thumb
• 断duànto break; to snap; to cut off

Example sentences

• 她哭得肝肠寸断。
  Tā kū de gānchángcùnduàn.
  She cried her heart out.