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碎屍萬段

简碎尸万段 · 繁碎屍萬段

Mandarin · pinyin suì shī wàn duàn

(idiom) to cut up sb's body into thousands of pieces (a hyperbolic threat)

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碎: suì · break, smash; broken, busted
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段: duàn · section, piece, division
尸: shī · corpse; to impersonate the dead; to preside; Kangxi radical 44
万: wàn · mò · ten thousand; innumerable

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4–1–4–4 · sui4 shi1 wan4 duan4

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seoi3 si1 maan6 dyun6

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(idiomatic) to dismember a corpse into numerous small pieces; to cut up a corpse into many small pieces

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