Learning Chinese is easier with our free resources! This series explains idioms and proverbs, valuable for various situations. Today’s idiom is 「日濡月染」, with more below.
Here, we present the idiom 「日濡月染」. Below, you’ll find its explanation and examples of usage.
Ru: soak. Dye: fumigate. Gradually it spreads over time. Refers to gradual changes caused by the influence of external things. Also written as “the sun gradually turns to the moon”.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
rì rú yuè rǎn
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
yat6 yu4 yut6 yim5
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