Our mission is to provide free tools for learning Chinese. This series explores idioms and proverbs, meaningful phrases worth knowing. Today’s idiom: 「十年生聚」.
Introducing the Chinese idiom 「十年生聚」: its meaning and application are provided for your understanding.
It is a metaphor for building up strength and making long-term preparations for revenge.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí nián shēng jù
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 nin4 saang1/sang1 jeui6
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