Progressing from characters to words and idioms marks advanced Chinese. This guide freely explains 「一絲半粟」 for your learning.
This time, our spotlight is on the idiom 「一絲半粟」. Its meaning and how it’s applied are described below.
A metaphor for something extremely small.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
yī sī bàn sù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat1 si1 bun3 suk1
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