Here’s a free resource for learning Chinese. This series focuses on idioms and proverbs, useful for various expressions. Today’s topic is 「一落千丈」, as shown below.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「一落千丈」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
Originally refers to the sudden drop in the sound of the piano. Later it was used to describe a sharp decline in reputation, status or financial conditions.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī luò qiān zhàng
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 lok6 chin1 jeung6
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