Our free resources help you explore Chinese idioms and proverbs. These phrases are full of meaning and widely applicable. Today, we introduce 「半絲半縷」—details below.
Learn about the idiom 「半絲半縷」: its definition and how it’s used are detailed here.
Thread: line. Half silk, half thread. Describes something that is small in quantity and extremely small in value.
The Mandarin pronunciation of this idiom is :
bàn sī bàn lǚ
while its Cantonese pinyin is :
bun3 si1 bun3 leui5
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