Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「大難臨頭」—details below.
Discover the idiom 「大難臨頭」, along with its meaning and how it is applied in context.
Nan: disaster; Lin: come. A great disaster has befallen you.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
dà nán lín tóu
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
daai6 naan4 lam4 tau4
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