Starting from characters, then words, the journey to learning Chinese leads to idioms. Our free resource teaches idioms like 「十年磨劍」. Explanation below.
The featured idiom 「十年磨劍」 is explained here, including its meaning and how to use it.
A metaphor for years of hard training.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
shí nián mó jiàn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
sap6 nin4 mo4 gim3
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