4 characters Idiom and proverb 27 562

Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「駢肩迭跡」.

Here’s the idiom 「駢肩迭跡」, with its definition and practical application described below.

Describes a crowded place. Same as “shoulder to shoulder with traces of fatigue”.

The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :

pián jiān dié jì

while its Cantonese pinyin is :

pin4 gin1 dip6 jik1

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