Our goal is to provide you with free Chinese learning tools. This series highlights idioms and proverbs, full of meaning and adaptable to many contexts. The featured idiom is 「鴻爪春泥」, with details below.
Our focus this time is on the idiom 「鴻爪春泥」. You’ll find its definition and examples below.
A metaphor for the traces left by the past. Same as “a wild goose’s footprints in the snow and mud”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
hóng zhǎo chūn ní
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
hung4 jaau2 cheun1 nai4
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